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as opposed to that in which chemists know the contents of their test
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tubes or mathematicians know the rules their symbols obey.
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Those who lack this quality of practical wisdom,
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whatever other qualities they may possess,
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no matter how clever, learned, imaginative, kind,
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noble, attractive, gifted in other ways they may be,
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are correctly regarded as politically inept."
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There, Berlin tells us something about the character of this
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political knowledge that Aristotle describes as phronimos.
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Again, how is this knowledge acquired?
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Are we just born with it?
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Do some people just have it or is it a product of experience?