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Michael Polanyi
I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge w
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Michael Polanyi is saying that when we communicate, we depend a lot on sharing understanding that can't be fully explained in words. He also argues that our awareness of thoughts and feelings comes from this kind of implicit knowledge rather than explicit description.
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