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From Quotes by Michael Polanyi
- The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs…
- We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such…
- I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell,
- But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.
- I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can…
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