意会认知是关系性的直观，它通过对细节之间关系的整体把握，导致我们对外观背后"综合实在"的意会理解。这里的综合概念，暗合康德发现的先天综合判断。其实，是波兰尼意会认知破境康德先验知性构架，以透视自动塑形经验及观念构式的神秘力量努力的存在论延伸。他对意会认知发生的综合实在整体与细节关系的理解，从一种单向的意会整合关系转换为复杂的双向建构作用。

Tacit knowing is a kind of relational intuition, which leads us to tacitly understand the "synthetic reality" behind the appearance through the overall grasp of the relationship between details. The concept of "synthetic" here implies the synthetic judgment a priori discovered by Kant. In fact, it is an existentialist extension of Polanyi's endeavor to understand the mysterious power of Kant's a priori intellectual framework which can automatically shape experience and conceptual structure. His understanding of the relationship between the whole and details of the synthetic reality in tacit knowing has evolved from a one-way relationship of tacit integration to a complex function of two-way construction.