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“Polanyi’s Paradox.” It can be summarized as “We know more than we can say.”

The artist is distinguished from all other responsible actors in society — the politicians, legislators, educators, and scientists — by the fact that he is his own test tube, his own laboratory, working according to very rigorous rules, however unstated these may be, and cannot allow any consideration to supersede his responsibility to reveal all t

The overarching concept brought forward by Polanyi is that of the “double movement”[60]: driven by technology, the market starts imposing its dynamics onto society; then, reacting to the harshness of the unrestrained market and the suffering it brings about, society reacts and ultimately reshapes the corporate world to channel its power and serve t

Polanyi observed that there are many tasks we can easily perform as humans that we can’t fully explain. For example, driving a car or recognizing a face. We can try to describe how we do these things, but our explanations always fall far short. That’s because we are relying on tacit knowledge, which is impossible to describe in exact detail. We pos

Realizing that knowledge is provisional moves us further and further away from the dream of so many philosophies: finding a foundation to knowledge that can offer certainty.