Kłopoty z wiedzą niejawną (tacit knowledge) w poglądach Michaela Polanyiego

The aim of the article is characteristic of some basic ordeals in reconstruction of Polanyi’s idea of tacit knowledge, as well as exposition of its typical ways of understanding. Paper consists of seven points: (1 – 3) contains an analysis of author’s texts in aspect of typical ways of usage of the term and some other meaning-related categories; in (4) some major methodological challenges facing its definition are picked out, while in (5) main ways of interpretation elaborated by author’s researchers are being expound; (6) focuses on relation between idea of tacit and explicit knowledge, while (7) highlights the role of tacit knowledge in process of problem- -solving.