In the first step, the authoress describes shortly Michael Polanyi's sophisticated theory of science and cognition; his conception of tacit knowledge is a part of this theory. Further, she reconstructs Polanyi's views on tacit knowledge and its role in science. She also attempts to precise the notion of tacit knowledge by referring to subject literature.
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