Polanyi’s ‘Ontological Equation’: A Response to Recent Discussions of Polanyi’s ‘Realism’

Tradition and Discovery 27 (2):34-38 (2000)
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Although Polanyi regards technological knowledge as inferior to scientific knowledge, he uses the idea of machine-like operational principles as an analogy for both his epistemology and his ontology. Since his epistemology is based on personal knowledge, this suggest the need for a personal ontology. Polanyi tries to avoid such a conclusion by invoking impersonal evolutionary factors.

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