Ocupation: Economic Consultant
Life: March 11, 1891 - February 22, 1976
Birthday: March 11
Death: February 22
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.
source: Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch (2008). “Meaning”, p.100, University of Chicago Press
topic: Coherence, Judgment, Criteria, Qualitative, Validity, Tacit