摘要：This essay proposes that Polanyi’s tacit knowing – specifically his conception of tacit knowing as cognitive
contact with reality – should be construed as fundamentally a knowing by acquaintance – a relational knowing
of reality, rather than merely the underlying subsidiary component of explicit representational knowledge.
Thus construed, Polanyi’s theory that tacit knowing is foundational to all human knowing is more radical than
is often supposed, for it challenges the priority status of explicit representational knowledge relative to tacit
acquaintance knowledge, which has been the dominant paradigm for most of the Western epistemological
tradition.
关键词：Michael Polanyi, tacit knowing, acquaintance knowing, representational knowing,
representational theory of perception, post-critical, conceptual mediation.
