Tacit knowledge
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Tacit knowledge or implicit knowledge (as opposed to formal, codified or explicit knowledge) is the kind of knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalizing it. For example, that London is in the United Kingdom is a piece of explicit knowledge that can be written down, transmitted, and understood by a recipient. However, the ability to speak a language, ride a bicycle, knead dough, play a musical instrument, or design and use complex equipment requires all sorts of knowledge which is not always known explicitly, even by expert practitioners, and which is difficult or impossible to explicitly transfer to other people.
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See also
- Activity theory
- Cognitive apprenticeship
- Concept map
- Consensus reality
- Decision making
- Descriptive knowledge
- Dispersed knowledge
- Fuzzy concept
- Hidden curriculum
- Intuition
- Knowledge by acquaintance
- Knowledge tagging
- Logical consequence
- Phronesis
- Procedural knowledge
- Situated knowledge
- Tacit assumption
- Text and conversation theory
- Threshold knowledge
- Unsaid
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