But Even Physics Cannot Be Defined From

The Amount Of Knowledge Which We Can Justify From Evidence Directly Available To Us Can Never Be Large. The Overwhelming Proportion Of Our Factual Beliefs Continue Therefore To Be Held At Second Hand Through Trusting Others, And In The Great Majority Of Cases Our Trust Is Placed In The Authority Of Comparatively Few People Of Widely Acknowledged Standing.

While Tacit Knowledge Can Be Possessed By Itself, Explicit Knowledge Must Rely On Being Tacitly Understood And Applied. Hence All Knowledge Is Either Tacit Or Rooted In Tacit Knowledge. A Wholly Explicit Knowledge Is Unthinkable.

We Could Not, For Example, Arrive At A Principle Like That Of Entropy Without Introducing Some Additional Principle, Such As Randomness, To This Topography.

The Information In Dna Could No More Be Reduced To The Chemical Than Could The Ideas In A Book Be Reduced To The Ink And Paper: Something Beyond Physics And Chemistry Encoded Dna.

Personal Participation Is The Universal Principle Of Knowing.