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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gestures as he speaks during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 20, 2026. Fabrice COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images In an interview published ...

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Polanyi thus formulated the initial idea in the 1960s (The Tacit Dimension). If we know more than we can say, this means that useful knowledge does not primarily exist in the form of sentences, ...

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