Polanyi's paradox
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Polanyi's paradox
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Polanyi's paradox, named in honour of the British-Hungarian philosopher Michael Polanyi, is the theory that human knowledge of how the world functions and of our own capability are, to a large extent, beyond our explicit understanding. The theory was articulated by Michael Polanyi in his book The Tacit Dimension in 1966, and economist David Autor gave it a name in his 2014 research paper "Polanyi's Paradox and the Shape of Employment Growth". Summarised in the slogan "We can know more than we ca
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Philosophical theory
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2024-02-02T21:08:50Z
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