Hayek's later epistemologicalargument establishes that no individual rational agent possesses the distributed, tacit social knowledge necessary to ground legitimate political decisions, undermining the very competence the autonomy principle presupposes.
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Rational agent(as used in epistemology and philosophy of mind)
A person or being that makes decisions by thinking logically and consistently, rather than acting on emotion or instinct.
autonomy principle(Raz's perfectionist liberal political philosophy)
A principle that permits and even requires governments to create morally valuable opportunities and to eliminate repugnant ones, subject to the constraint of the harm principle
competence(Generative linguistics; contrasted with performance factors like memory)
The underlying linguistic knowledge state of an ideal speaker, distinct from actual performance
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
tacit knowledge(Polanyi 1958; adopted from Ryle's knowing-how concept)
Michael Polanyi's term for 'knowing how' — non-articulated knowledge made a central characteristic of technology