A M de Lange wrote:
>When early this year Fred Nichols insisted that Polanyi wrote that tacit
>knowledge CANNOT be told, I realised with a shock that I might have taken
>Polanyi too familiar. He wrote on a certain understanding and I may have
>read from it quite a different understanding. So I rushed to the library
>to study him again. His three books were removed last December when the
>library computerised their catalogue completely. They had too many books
>to enter in the computer catalogue in the time available and they also
>lacked space in a over stored library. Some "subject referees" were called
>in to scrap books of "little value for modern academy". Polanyi's books
>were among them. I came close to behaving uncivilised.
I have just ordered four books bearing Michael Polanyi's name and I'm
having them shipped to At via expedited international shipping. With
luck, he'll have them by Christmas.
Merry Christmas, At. Read the damn books and tell us what you think.
Fred Nickols
The Distance Consulting Company
"Assistance at A Distance"
http://home.att.net/~nickols/distance.htm
nickols@att.net
(609) 490-0095
[Host's Note: Merry Christmas, At! ..Rick]
--Fred Nickols <nickols@att.net>
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