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This Bridge Essay explores the limits of explicit knowledge, examining how mysticism, intuition, and tacit skill generate insight beyond words or algorithm. It investigates the nature of ineffable understanding, the cognitive science of non-verbal knowledge, and why protocols must make room for the unarticulable within systems that value challenge, synthesis, and plural wisdom.

This Bridge Essay explores the limits of explicit knowledge, examining how mysticism, intuition, and tacit skill generate insight beyond words or algorithm. It investigates the nature of ineffable understanding, the cognitive science of non-verbal knowledge, and why protocols must make room for the unarticulable within systems that value challenge, synthesis, and plural wisdom.

The Challenge of Ineffable Knowledge: Mysticism, Intuition, and Tacit Skill

What survives when only the speakable is sanctioned? In the architecture of knowledge, some truths walk wordless: the mystical presence...

Paul Falconer

Aug 243 min read

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