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are in the Latin word scientia, which translated simply means knowledge 9 . Thus, I hold that thisis a scientific enquiry even though it has no test tubes, thermometers or triangles. It is a study,however, that is trying to establish what knowledge is and how it is acquired.Most notable for the purposes of the project is the seminal work of Michael Polanyi (1962) whoshifted publicly from his role as an academic scientist to work as an epistemologist preciselybecause he saw the tensions between reified knowledge as he saw it in the physical sciences andhis own experience, the outcomes of which he saw as rather less fixed and open to change anddifference. Polanyi writes,"... scientific theory is denied all persuasive power that is intrinsic to itself, as theory. Itmust not go beyond experience by affirming anything that cannot be tested by experience,and above all, scientists must be prepared immediately to drop a theory the moment anobservation turns up which conflicts with it. In so far as a theory cannot be tested byexperience - or appears not capable of being tested - it ought to be revised so that itspredictions are restricted to observable magnitudes." (Polanyi, 1962 p. 9)Polanyi offers here a critique of the Newtonian paradigm alluded to above in the words ofMatthew Fox. He goes on to note alternatively that,"We shall find Personal Knowledge manifested in the appreciation of probability and oforder in the exact sciences, and see it at work even more extensively in the way descriptivesciences rely on skills and connoisseurship. At all these points the act of knowing includesan appraisal; and this personal co-efficient, which shapes all factual knowledge, bridges indoing so the disjunction between subjectivity and objectivity. It implies the claim thatman can transcend his own subjectivity by striving passionately to fulfil his personalobligations to universal standards." (Polanyi, 1962 p. 17)Accordingly, I would argue that kNowledge (N 2 ) for me is the outcome of an appraisal of arange of experiences. It is not, in Polanyi's theory, enough to have participated in an experienceevent; there has to be a process by which the putative knower appraises what has been seen,heard, touched, tasted or smelt. As such all matter are therefore phenomena to be experiencedfirst and then 'come to be known' later. I may experience, for example, video-conferencing in a9 See Hanks 198934Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thesis (October 2012)