Can knowing be written down?

We know more than we can tell — and what we cannot tell, we cannot fully transmit in writing.

Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy1958

Expertise is not stored rules but embodied know-how — the master has stopped following the rules the novice still needs.

Turned Polanyi's insight into a prediction about AI: a system fed only what was written down inherits the novice's rulebook, never the expert's feel.

What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason1992