properly understand such use through the process of written communication. The discoveries of Einstein provide further fruitful examples for Polanyi. Far from being a response to a crisis in existing science (as a Kuhnian point of view would have it, for example) Einstein’s own notes and letters give evidence that the real origins of his work were in his own sheer creativity of thought. Scientific theories, and their articulation, require the imagination and participation of the scientist who saw
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