Sunday, April 26, 2020

Implicit Knowledge (nursery edition)


We earlier shared an anecdote of implicit or “chrysalis-enclosed” knowledge, from an introspective five-year-old of our acquaintance:


Compare this childhood reminiscence of a boy growing up on the Upper East Side:

I remember my grandmother’s house quite well.  It was a very cold formal place.  There was an enormous marble entrace hall …
We behaved extremely well.  We knew the rules inside out  without knowing the rules.
Jeff Kisseloff, You Must Remember This:  An Oral History of Manhattan  from the 1890s to World War II (1989), p. 120

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