# You Can't Say Anything Without Experiencing It Because you can't get tacit knowledge without an experience. Expli cit knowledge is limited by the limit of language. And the limit i s quite tight. I'm not saying that you can't judge a serial killer without having an experience of killing people. But I think that you can't truly understand the serial killer without having a similar experience. This is also related to the problem of centralization / central pl anning as Hayek wrote. Bureaucrats can't use tacit knowledge when making a decision.