Michael polanyi: knowing by attending to and knowing by relying on are mutually exclusive. He says we know subsidiarily the particulars of a comprehensive whole when attending focally to the whole. We can tell what the things are which we know by attending to them focally, he says. But we are uncertain, or entirely ignorant, of things that we know only by reliance on awareness.
Michael polanyi: knowing by attending to and knowing by relying on are mutually exclusive. He says we know subsidiarily the particulars of a comprehensive whole when attending focally to the whole. We can tell what the things are which we know by attending to them focally, he says. But we are uncertain, or entirely ignorant, of things that we know only by reliance on awareness.
Michael polanyi: knowing by attending to and knowing by relying on are mutually exclusive. He says we know subsidiarily the particulars of a comprehensive whole when attending focally to the whole. We can tell what the things are which we know by attending to them focally, he says. But we are uncertain, or entirely ignorant, of things that we know only by reliance on awareness.