Talk:Tacit knowledge
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Tacit knowledge may be articulable or inarticulable.
Just like our experience of colour, sound, smell and numbers, knowledge is a continuum. Knowledge is infinite in its shades, tones, and in our sense of it. We cannot possibly make explicit the infinite supply of knowledge available to us. We are limited not just by our words of expression, but by our time on the planet in which to actually express our knowledge experience.
Hence taking articulable tacit knowledge and actually articulating it is like taking analog time and expressing it on a digital watch (Vazey, 2005).
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[edit] Possible synonym
Tacit knowledge is also referred to as "implicit learning".
- Actually, the synonym would be "implicit knowledge". Learning is a process, knowledge is not. The terms are certainly overlapping (definitions depend on who you ask anyway), and I'd agree that they are synonyms. What I don't know is in what context (scientific disciplines) each is common — that would be interesting. Rl 15:17, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Hayek reference
I have removed a short paragraph which seems to have been more inserted out of interest in Hayek and should go there, rather than exemplifying tacit knowledge which is otherwise a good, clear, well written article. Jeffrey Newman 05:49, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Edit note
I have removed edits of 06:08, 23 January 2006 by 219.209.178.19 which appear to be poorly formatted or possibly some sort of defacement. I also removed code at the bottom of the page which read --
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-- but which only appeared in the edit page version and not in the properly displayed article, and which make no sense. Please revert if I am mistaken. Thank you. Marcopolo 12:29, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
- Figured out the "In other languages" links. Marcopolo 12:37, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] major changes
I'm making some major changes to this article. I'm going to add a section on geographic thought on the issue (I'm a geographer, so it's my god given duty to do this). I don't think that the last two sections are partially good, so I might remove them and put in something else. I'll also add more concentration on tacit knowledge's role in buissness, as much of the literature on the subject is about that. Any other suggestions if what to add?
Benspigel 05:36, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
I cant give you any references, but I would say that a large part of tacit knowledge is the world view that a specialist such as an engineer brings to a problem. they have unarticulated ways of lookoing at things that infrom their judgements, which then leads them to pick from their array of formal explicit knowledge. Many of the organisatina screw up we experience are due to a failure of tacit knowledge.
