Tacit Knowledge
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Definition
Tacit knowledge is knowledge that operates in skill, judgment, perception, and practice but cannot be fully captured as explicit rules.
Background
Michael Polanyi argued that knowing has personal, embodied, and contextual dimensions that cannot be exhaustively made explicit.
Position
It explains what AI summarization, paraphrase, and knowledge management can lose when they flatten expert judgment into explicit text.
Distinctions
- It is not merely undocumented knowledge; some tacit structure remains even after documentation.
- The contrast with explicit knowledge matters, but the two also depend on each other.
Primary source-backed reference selected for this concept.
Sources
- The Tacit Dimension, University of Chicago Press Official
- Polanyi Society Reference
Page Context
- Is comprehensive understanding diluted by paraphrasing?
5.1 Relationship structure The first thing that tends to be lost is the relationship between the clues. Summarization usually eliminates duplication and selects representative e...
Quote: Is comprehensive understanding diluted by paraphrasing? philosophy-knowledge
- Polanyi, Wittgenstein, and tacit knowledge
Point of contact between Polanyi's tacit knowledge and Tractatus Logico-Philosophique 1. Executive Summary Both Polanyi and the early Wittgenstein showed that knowledge cannot b...
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- Relationship between tacit knowledge, explicit knowledge, and AI summary
Relationship between tacit knowledge, explicit knowledge, and AI summary 1. Executive Summary In conclusion, it is appropriate to use generative AI as a "device that compresses ...
Quote: Relationship between tacit knowledge, explicit knowledge, and AI summary ai-systems
- Tacit knowledge, business theory, and generative AI
Definition of tacit knowledge, business theory, trends in the generative AI era 1. Executive Summary Although tacit knowledge is "knowledge that cannot be put into words," this ...
Quote: Tacit knowledge, business theory, and generative AI knowledge-systems
Pages
- Is comprehensive understanding diluted by paraphrasing?
Focusing on Polanyi's tacit knowing, we will examine what is lost when reducing tacit knowledge and value judgments to explicit paraphrases from the perspectives of philosophy, cognitive science, and practice.
philosophy-knowledge
- Polanyi, Wittgenstein, and tacit knowledge
Compare Polanyi's tacit knowledge and what can be said/shown in Tractatus Logico-Philosophique from the perspectives of practical understanding and comprehensive understanding.
philosophy-knowledge
- Relationship between tacit knowledge, explicit knowledge, and AI summary
We will organize the basics of the SECI model and tacit knowledge, and summarize from a deployment perspective what generative AI is good at and what tends to distort summarization, translation, and knowledge management.
ai-systems
- Tacit knowledge, business theory, and generative AI
Organize tacit knowledge from Polanyi, Wittgenstein, organizational knowledge creation theory, and knowledge management in the era of generative AI.
knowledge-systems