What is not expressed formally can be classified as tacit.
Tacitus comes from the Latin tacitus which, in turn, derives from the verb tacere ( "to shut up" ). This adjective allows us to name someone who is silent or silent , and something that is not perceived or that is not said formally, in such a way that it is inferred or assumed .
In grammar, the subject known as tacit , omitted or implicit , does not have an express representation in the sentence, but is implied through certain contextual elements. In other words, its presence is not necessary since the rest of the components and the data previously provided to the reader or interlocutor are sufficient for them to understand who is being talked about.
There are times when what is understood as tacit can turn out to be wrong. In these cases, a certain context is necessary in which to place the information , in order to find those nuances that, although subtle, have the potential to alter the meaning considerably.
Cornelius Tacitus and Marcus Claudius Tacitus
Cornelius Tacitus o Cornelius Tacitus (55–120), por otra parte, fue un senador, cónsul y gobernador romano. Tacit se destacó tanto por su carrera política como por sus habilidades como orador e historiador.
Marcus Claudius Tacitus (200–276) fue un cónsul emperador romano que, pese a sus propias afirmaciones, no tenía ningún tipo de parentesco con Cornelius Tacitus. Sólo estuvo seis meses en el poder hasta que lo sorprendió la muerte y fue sucedido por su hermano Floriano.
Tacit knowledge is difficult to recognize, explain and transmit.
A type of knowledge
Tacit knowledge is made up of a series of customs and aspects of culture that generally cannot be explained, recognized or transmitted. This means that human beings know more than we can affirm or share. These are informal, personal or social notions, difficult to put into words in a systematized way, to externalize through conventional media.
This concept was developed by Michael Polanyi, a scientist and philosopher born in 1891 in present-day Hungary. In his book " Knowing and Being ", published in 1969, he described tacit knowledge as a process , and not as a type of knowledge. Despite this, given the name of his theory, it is usually defined in the latter way.
How tacit knowledge develops
It is worth mentioning that there is no universal way to define tacit knowledge. According to studies carried out in knowledge management (a concept that is applied in organizations with the objective of transferring knowledge from its origin to the place where it will be used), tacit knowledge can be made up of:
* experiences, skills, habits, ideas , history, values and convictions;
* contextual or ecological knowledge, such as geographical and physical concepts that we cannot measure or explain , characteristic features of the behavior of other living beings, etc.;
* the ability to understand a text, analyze and visualize ideas, solve problems.
Imagination and intuition
Two fundamental points for the formation of tacit knowledge are imagination and intuition , given that when they work based on the perception of reality, they generate a series of deductions and cognitive tools that are specific to each individual and very difficult to transmit to others. others.
The reason for such difficulty in expressing tacit knowledge is that it is created in each person, taking into account their needs, their intellectual level, their fears, their expectations. This can be seen especially in self-taught learning: unlike traditional education (which proposes a rigid model, the same for everyone), those who learn on their own have absolute freedom to organize their studies, and do so based on their own intuition . understanding at every step those concepts that are closest to their culture and previous knowledge.