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  1. Well stated. I’m reminded of the observation by Thomas Kuhn that the body of essential knowledge in any discipline isn’t just its key findings and laws, but also the contextual pieces that tell us what those key findings mean: important experiments, skills learned by apprenticeship, and the like. (Writing this, I paused to look up an online article and discovered that much of this appeared earlier in Polanyi, and was probably discussed by others as well… In any event, Kuhn is where I first encountered it.)

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