Tacit Knowledge

Dr. Tim Thornton, Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health at the University of Central Lancashire, has written an article titled Tacit Knowledge of Theories of Meaning.

The first two paragraphs of this article:

Stephen G. Henrey wrote an article titled: A Clinical Perspective on Tacit Knowledge and Its Varieties. The following is the abstract for the article:

However, my experience with these kinds of on-line discussions is that members who respond to a question rarely ask for any context. Rather they respond in declarative statements about their own experience or they offer their own rules of thumb. Seldom is there an attempt for asker and responder to probe the meaning that the other is attempting to convey. For this reason I think on-line discussions are not an effective way to share tacit knowledge

Egil Asprem has written an article titled Peter Burke, the social history of knowledge, and “agnotology” – notes on a lecture.

Peter Burke is a historian who has focused "on the integration of social theory in the history of culture".

Egil also references Agnotology, and the following quote is informative:

The Polayni Society, a scholarly organization whose members are interested in the thought of Michael Polanyi, a scientist and philosopher who lived from 1891 to 1976 who was well known for his work on tacit knowledge, has a section titled Essays and Lectures by Michael Polanyi that houses 23 different essays and lectures by Polanyi that are freely available for viewing.

This article on tacit knowledge titled How does a motorbike turn? by John Seely Brown is an excellent very short introduction to the subject of tacit knowledge.

But this is an example of just how mysterious the tacit is and how getting at that, and bringing that up to the surface so that you can do something about it is incredibly complicated.