1958 · trunk question
What is knowing?
The cuts
Michael Polanyi 1958
We know more than we can tell. Knowing is a skillful, personal act — most of it tacit.
Split knowing from stating, decades before machines that consume only what was stated.
The Tacit Dimension1966
Edmund Gettier 1963
Justified true belief is not knowledge — here are two counterexamples.
Broke a 2,300-year-old definition in three pages. The archetype of philosophical sharpening.
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?1963
Knowing comes in four kinds — propositional, procedural, perspectival, participatory — and only the first fits in sentences.
A map of exactly what a text-trained system can and cannot inherit.
Relevance Realization and the Emerging Framework in Cognitive Science2012