Tacit knowledge

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Tacit knowledge or implicit knowledge is knowledge that is difficult to extract or articulate—as opposed to conceptualized, formalized, codified, or explicit knowledge—and is therefore more difficult to convey to others through verbalization or writing. Examples of tacit knowledge include individual wisdom, experience, insight, motor skill, and intuition. An example of "explicit" information that can be recorded, conveyed, and understood by the recipient is the knowledge that London is in the United Kingdom. On the other hand, speaking a language, riding a bicycle, kneading dough, playing an instrument, or designing and operating sophisticated machinery, each require a variety of knowledge that is difficult or impossible to transfer readily to other people and is not always known "explicitly", even by skilled practitioners.

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