We Know More Than We Can Tell.

Our Reliance On The Validity Of A Scientific Conclusion Depends Ultimately On A Judgment Of Coherence; And As There Can Exist No Strict Criterion For Coherence, Our Judgment Of It Must Always Remain A Qualitative, Nonformal, Tacit, Personal Judgment.

We Cannot Ultimately Specify The Grounds (either Metaphysical Or Logical Or Empirical) Upon Which We Hold That Our Knowledge Is True. Being Committed To Such Grounds, Dwelling In Them, We Are Projecting Ourselves To What We Believe To Be True From Or Through These Grounds. We Cannot Therefore See What They Are. We Cannot Look At Them Because We Are Looking With Them.

To Try To Reform All The Power Structures At Once Would Leave Us With No Power Structure To Use In Our Project. In Any Case, We Will Be Able To See That Absolute Moral Renewal Could Be Attempted Only By An Absolute Power And That A Tyrannous Force Such As This Must Destroy The Whole Moral Life Of Man, Not Renew It.

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.

Admittedly, The Body Of Scientists, As A Whole, Does Uphold The Authority Of Science Over The Lay Public. It Controls Thereby Also The Process By Which Young Men Are Trained To Become Members Of The Scientific Profession.