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See this MeFi thread about Polanyi. Perhaps some links from there could be incorporated here. <>< tbc 06:51, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Should that say "adsorption" or "absorption"? 62.254.128.4 11:14, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I also was reading this and thought it should say 'adsorption'. I will change it. 75.157.27.217 (talk) 02:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
One wonders how a person could obtain a doctorate degree in chemistry without ever having been a student of that subject (as the article currently makes you assume). The article says he graduated as a physician, and in that course of studies some knowledge of chemistry will be imparted, but how much ? A German language source says that he actually became a student of chemistry at a German university, before he was drafted to the (Austrian-Hungarian) army in WW I. If the date of 1913 for his graduating in medicine is correct, he cannot have persued that second course of studies for very long, though I do not know when precisely he had to start his war service.147.142.186.54 (talk) 16:38, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
According to the "Early life" section, he was born in Vienna, but according to the infobox, he was born in Budapest. Which one is right? //Essin (talk) 21:14, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Intro paragraph (past tense) ends with a sentence at present tense ("He argues that not only does positivism give..."). Before changing this, I was wondering if his stake on positivism was really so central to his thought to deserve a place in the first paragraph. Otherwise it should simply be removed, or replaced with a better summary of his work. --Satanetto (talk) 01:53, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
Yes the attack on "Positivism" is central to his work. It is not simply that as a working scientist he thought it an inaccurate account of the practice of science, he claimed that Positivism (in its most general sense) is profoundly destructive of the beliefs which sustain human civilisation. His work in chemistry and economics are footnotes (which is not to belittle them) in the history of those sciences, but his writings against Positivism are why he has a Wikipedia article. When Polanyi is mentioned in contemporary writings it is generally not for his work in the sciences - distinguished though his contributions were in various fields. You can find another word such as "Scientism" or "Reductionism" or "Analytical Philosophy" but Positivism (in all of its various senses) is the most accurate general description of what he was rejecting. You will be hard pressed to find a single Polanyi scholar who would disagree with this assessment. ERIDU-DREAMING (talk) 08:04, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
RE: "Polanyi did not reject the concept of objectivity." That is a totally false statement. His book, his main work, entitled Personal Knowledge, is an explanation of why he in fact does wholly reject the concept of objectivity. Its one of the key reasons for his attack on the dogmas and false principles of positivism. Personal knowledge makes the individual responsible for what he or she claims to know. The doctrine of "objectivity" is an attempt to escape that responsibility. Absurdly, it would remove the known from the knower. He points out that personal knowledge does not result in solipsism (PK316f) because people share a language, which enables intersubjective agreement. But that is far from "objectivity." DrWJK (talk) 22:17, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
I've reverted a recent spree of edits involving many hundreds of words because they have no edit summary. I'm hoping for either a single proposal by the author of the last twenty-something edits, or at least some kind of explanation, any kind of positive gesture will help. — CpiralCpiral 07:39, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
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