Rule-Following, Intransitive Understanding and Tacit Knowledge. An Investigation of the Wittgensteinian Concept of Practice as Regards Tacit Knowing

The concept of tacit knowing comes from scientist and philosopher Michael Polanyi. It is important to understand that he wrote about a process (hence tacit knowing) and not a form of knowledge. However, his phrase has been taken up to name a form of knowledge that is apparently wholly or partly inexplicable. Tacit knowledge cannot be “captured”, “translated”, or “converted” but only displayed and manifested, in what we do. New knowledge comes about not when the tacit becomes explicit, but when our skilled performance is punctuated in new ways through social interaction. tacit knowledge - Knowledge that enters into the production of behaviours and/or the constitution of mental states but is not ordinarily accessible to consciousness. See also cognize, knowledge, implicit memory, Background, rules. This paper presents the overview of the term Tacit Management, in which we are going to present the different types of tacit knowledge, definitions, and properties of it. How is it useful in applicability of management education? The benefits from it, failure due to lack of tacit knowledge, the paradox of it and at last the conclusion related to the terminology Tacit Knowledge Management (TKM).

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Paramedic Practice – Knowledge Invested in Action

Australasian Journal of Paramedicine ◽

10.33151/ajp.1.3.211 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Andrea Wyatt

Keyword(s):

Tacit Knowledge ◽

Training Programs ◽

Clinical Judgments ◽

Tacit Knowing ◽

Knowing That ◽

New Knowledge ◽

Practice Knowledge ◽

The Relationship ◽

And Training

The ability of expert practitioners to make sound judgments when faced with non-routine situations calls on a form of tacit knowing that has been loosely branded as ‘intuition’, a ‘sixth sense’, or ‘gut feeling’. The development of tacit knowledge is associated with nonformal learning that occurs in the context of the workplace; however, the elusive nature of this phenomenon has served to hamper research efforts. The focus has therefore shifted away from tacit knowledge toward the more observable concept of ‘judgment’. Paramedics are called to make clinical judgments as part of their everyday practice, often unaware of the basis behind these judgments. This case study examines the source of knowledge drawn on by experienced paramedics when making judgments, especially when faced with situations they have not previously encountered, and proposes how new knowledge and meaning is constructed through such involvements. A better understanding of the relationship between knowing and judgment, and how they are developed, will have future implications for the provision of ongoing education and training programs for paramedics.

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Hayek on tacit knowledge

Journal of Institutional Economics ◽

10.1017/s1744137409990312 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 145-165 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

FUAT OĞUZ

Keyword(s):

Tacit Knowledge ◽

Tacit Knowing ◽

Knowing How

Abstract:This paper discusses the place of ‘tacit knowledge’ in Hayek's writings. How did Hayek understand tacit knowledge? How did his understanding change through time? I address these questions and follow the change in Hayek's works from skills and techniques of thought in the 1930s to the use of ‘tacit knowledge’ in the1960s. Hayek uses Polanyi's concept in many writings, but remains short of approving its implications. The paper emphasizes that while Hayek was quite aware of the differences between tacit knowing and knowing-how, he was not keen to stress the divergence. In the end, I offer some potential explanations for this preference.

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Knowledge, tacit

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy ◽

10.4324/9780415249126-p048-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

C.F. Delaney

Keyword(s):

Philosophy Of Science ◽

Tacit Knowledge ◽

Implicit Knowledge ◽

Theory Of Knowledge ◽

Thomas Kuhn ◽

Michael Polanyi ◽

Adequate Account ◽

Tacit Knowing ◽

Theoretical Linguistics

Tacit knowledge is a form of implicit knowledge we rely on for both learning and acting. The term derives from the work of Michael Polanyi (1891–1976) whose critique of positivistic philosophy of science grew into a fully developed theory of knowledge. Polanyi believed that the ‘scientific’ account of knowledge as a fully explicit formalizable body of statements did not allow for an adequate account of discovery and growth. In his account of tacit knowledge, knowledge has an ineliminable subjective dimension: we know much more than we can tell. This notion of tacit knowing in science has been developed by Thomas Kuhn, has figured prominently in theoretical linguistics and has also been studied in psychology.

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