This is my take, after reading a lot about it: if you act repeatedly on tacit knowledge and you get feedback while doing it, that tacit knowledge becomes intuition.
position: tacit knowledge w feedback loops, becomes intuition
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Visual knowledge works the same way. Close your eyes and think of Marilyn Monroe and Einstein. You can picture their faces, you know what they look like. But if you have to describe them to another person, suddenly that becomes very hard. That’s also knowledge that lives in this tacit field.
Not all can. And most can do so incomplete, which is not the same as tacit K. Vgl making a drawing of a bike.
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In between sits what Michael Polanyi called tacit knowledge. Think of playing the piano. You’ve practiced a piece so many times that your fingers just go.
[[The Tacit Dimension by Michael Polanyi]] practical skills build on tacit awareness, as in the e.g. of playing piano, but is tied not being able to explain how you do it, making it tacit K. Polanyi's claim is that any meaning can be based on tacit awareness, and thus hard to express.
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