Knowing And Being by Michael Polanyi
Essays
The book argues that knowing is a personal, active, and tacit process rather than a detached, purely objective representation: we come to understand the world by “indwelling” tools, skills, and traditions, attending focally to particulars while subsidiarily relying on tacit knowledge and fiduciary commitments. It critiques positivist and reductionist accounts of science, develops the logic of tacit inference, and stresses the essential role of personal judgment, community, and tradition in discovery. At the same time it links epistemology to ontology, maintaining that reality is stratified and emergent and that human participation discloses aspects of being that cannot be captured by explicit rules alone.
- Published
- 1969
- Nationality
- British
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- Original Language
- English
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