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Article: Tacit Knowledge
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Tacit Knowledge
Though it is a psychological fact that human beings acquire, retain, and employ tacit knowledge, accounts of its nature and function in perception, memory, cognition, language, and learning vary across disciplines. In epistemology, the concept of tacit knowledge was pioneered by the scientist and philosopher Michael Polanyi (1891
–
1976) in his
Personal Knowledge
(1956) and
The Tacit Dimension
(1966). Drawing on Gestalt psychology, Polanyi developed a theory of tacit knowledge by extending the perceptual model of attending
from
subsidiary clues or particulars (bodily processes, sensory experiences, memory, intimations)
to
a focal whole (pattern, object, entity) ...
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