ABSTRACT
The claim made here is that Newman recognized the reality that Polanyi calls "tacit knowledge", while Polanyi recognized the reality that Newman calls "illative sense". Where Newman treated the tacit dimension as a matter of fact, Polanyi attempted to develop a theory to account for this fact. The phrase "tacit knowledge" is used only rarely in personal knowledge, but becomes more predominant in Polanyi's later writings as he developed the insight that "All knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowing". Personal knowledge is ultimately rooted in feelings - hence the appropriateness of the metaphor that this self-reflexive, subsidiary awareness is a "sense". In order to explore how Polanyi's map of the mind intersects with Newman's on the issue of the nature and scope of personal judgment, the author traces the same four themes discussed in the preceding section: knowledge of things, knowledge of thought, articulation, and the method of verisimilitude.
