Common Sense 和"The Tacit Dimension"

關於"The Tacit Dimension"的評說

最近台灣有書 名常識
是想仿近300年前美國的暢銷書?

The political pamphlet Common Sense was published in 1776 calling for American colonists to rebel against the British monarchy and proclaim their independence. Its author was Thomas Paine who had recently arrived in Philadelphia from England. Called by historian Bernard Bailyn "the most brilliant pamphlet written during the American Revolution, and one of the most brilliant pamphlets ever written in the English language," it helped persuade the majority of colonists, who had hoped for a peaceful resolution of differences with England, to take the path of revolution.

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其實現在科學/心理學等大興 一常識 等都可以深入分析: 為什麼知識或迷信等變成常識

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我曾請教Herbert Simon 關於 tacit knowledge 方面的想法 --我的朋友彭淮棟翻譯為"默會知識"
他是科學家 認為Michael Polanyi 的招牌說法是沒什麼"神秘"可言 現在人們知道得更多
Polanyi's concept of tacit knowledge was first articulated in Personal Knowledge.
... published as "The Tacit Dimension" (1966) he seeks to