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Tacit Knowledge Revisited

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This chapter brings together the material covered in Chaps. 16 and Chap. 10 to develop a deeper understanding of the nature of tacit knowledge from a predominantly neurophysiological and cognitive perspective. This compliments the work of Polanyi and Collins discussed in the chapter on tacit knowledge. A structure for knowledge comprising three domains is described which spans the full range from explicit to tacit knowledge.

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  1. Polanyi M. The tacit dimension. London: Routledge; 1967. p. 18–9.

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Burke, D. (2020). Tacit Knowledge Revisited. In: How Doctors Think and Learn. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46279-6_14

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