Archive for October 20th, 2009
Secrets of the Van der Graff
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: October 20, 2009
The philosopher of science Michael Polyani referred to it as ‘personal knowledge’, sociologist of science Harry Collins called it ‘tacit knowledge’ and your local gardener would simply know it as ‘green fingers’. It is the knowledge which we possess as experts in any given field but which is difficult to articulate. A certain ‘je ne [...]
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