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Tacit knowledge comprises a range of conceptual and sensory information that is featured with strong personal subjectivity. It is implicitly reflected in human actions; as argued by Polanyi, "tacit knowledge dwells in our awareness". [2] People's skills, experiences, insight, creativity and judgement all fall into this dimension. [7] Tacit ...
The term tacit knowing is attributed to Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge (1958). [2] In his later work, The Tacit Dimension (1966), Polanyi made the assertion that "we can know more than we can tell."
Tacit knowledge, as distinct from explicit knowledge, is an influential term developed by Polanyi in The Tacit Dimension [18] to describe among other things the ability to do something without necessarily being able to articulate it: for example, being able to ride a bicycle or play a musical instrument without being able to fully explain the ...
The Logic of Personal Knowledge: Essays Presented to Michael Polanyi on his Seventieth Birthday (London: Rutledge and Kegan Paul, 1961). Intellect and Hope: Essays on the Thought of Michael Polanyi, edited by Thomas A. Langford and William H. Poteat (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1968). Poteat is the author of three of the essays included ...
In its modern understanding, knowledge is made up of explicit knowledge, sometimes called skilled knowledge; and tacit or cognitive knowledge (sometimes known as "coping skills"), a category first identified by Michael Polanyi in 1958. [7] Explicit knowledge is the "what" of know-how: knowledge such as the professional or vocational skills that ...
One of the essays in this collection is remarkably penetrating and profound in explaining Poteat's relation to Polanyi and in placing Poteat within 20th Century philosophy: “Making Tacit Knowing Explicit: William H. Poteat’s Adaptation of Polanyi’s Post-Critical Method,” by Kieran Cashell in XXXV:2, 48–59.
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Externalization (Tacit to Explicit) – Externalization is the process of making tacit knowledge explicit, wherein knowledge is crystallized and is thus able to be shared by others, becoming the basis of new knowledge. At this point, personal tacit knowledge becomes useful to others as well, because it is expressed in a form that can be ...