| Summary: | This essay examines Michael Polanyi's notion of tacit knowing and seeks to clarify and elaborate upon its claims. Tacit knowing, which is conscious although inarticulate, must be distinguished from tacit processes, which are largely unconscious. Schematization is explored as a primary tacit process that humans share with all animals. This tacit process organizes and secures, in long-term memory, information of interest provided by receptors and those learned skills conducive to survival. Human empirical knowing integrates schematized subsidiaries into articulate explicitness through culturally-embedded symbols evoked in terms of felt fittingness.
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