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On Napoléon: I think we underestimate what’s involved in “scrapping” a theory. Easier to say than to do. It’s genuinely hard to act without any theory at all, and often there isn’t a replacement lying around.

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> “Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this, perspective is the guide and the gateway.”

Is this in essence tacit knowledge, or expectation of how "by the book" thinking is not as good as the learned texture of practice? https://commoncog.com/the-tacit-knowledge-series/

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