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Sanchez echoes the writings of German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who once famously said, “knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” ...
According to Ryle, this know-how knowledge is the instinctive and intrinsic knowledge ingrained in the individual's human capability. [8] Since tacit knowledge cannot be stated in propositional or formal form, Polanyi concludes such inability in articulation in the slogan ‘We can know more than we can tell’. [2]
But it is not enough for the members of a free society to believe that ideals such as truth, justice, and beauty, are not simply subjective, they also have to accept that they transcend our ability to wholly capture them. The non-subjectivity of values must be combined with acceptance that all knowing is fallible.
In law, ignorantia juris non excusat (Latin for "ignorance of the law excuses not"), [1] or ignorantia legis neminem excusat ("ignorance of law excuses no one"), [2] is a legal principle holding that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely by being unaware of its content.
Arguments from self-knowing take the form: If P were true then I would know it; in fact I do not know it; therefore P cannot be true. If Q were false then I would know it; in fact I do not know it; therefore Q cannot be false. In practice these arguments are often unsound and rely on the truth of the supporting premise.
Goethe's "Der Zauberlehrling" is well known in the German-speaking world. The lines in which the apprentice implores the returning sorcerer to help him with the mess he created have turned into a cliché, especially the line "Die Geister, die ich rief" ("The spirits that I summoned"), a simplified version of one of Goethe's lines "Die ich rief, die Geister, / Werd' ich nun nicht los" - "The ...
To appreciate this point, we must be able to adapt to our own thinking of the "exceptional" procedure mentioned above: we must apply it to itself. If we are unable to do this, and we think of thinking as a brain process, it is because we do not see thinking. After all, we are unable to take up the exceptional position needed to do so.
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