Explicable-Implicit

What is explicable-implicit knowledge? How should it be defined?

There seem to be implicit knowledge that is capable of being explicitly formulated. The definition of explicable-implicit is meant to capture that category.

In the scientonomic context, this term was first used by Hakob Barseghyan and Maxim Mirkin in 2018. The term is currently accepted by Scientonomy community.

In Scientonomy, the accepted definition of the term is:

• Propositional knowledge that hasn’t been openly formulated by the agent.

Scientonomic History

Acceptance Record of the Term

Here is the complete acceptance record of this term (it includes all the instances when the term was accepted as a part of a community's taxonomy):

Community	Accepted From	Acceptance Indicators	Still Accepted	Accepted Until	Rejection Indicators
Scientonomy	28 December 2018	The publication of Maxim Mirkin's The Status of Technological Knowledge in the Scientific Mosaic is an indication of the acceptance of the term by the community.	Yes

All Definitions

The following definitions of explicable-implicit the term have been suggested:

Theory	Formulation	Formulated In
Explicable-Implicit (Mirkin-Barseghyan-2018)	Propositional knowledge that hasn’t been openly formulated by the agent.	2018

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Accepted Definitions

The following definitions of explicable-implicit have been accepted:

Community	Theory	Formulation	Accepted From	Accepted Until
Scientonomy	Explicable-Implicit (Mirkin-Barseghyan-2018)	Propositional knowledge that hasn’t been openly formulated by the agent.	1 September 2019

Suggested Modifications

Here is a list of modifications concerning the definitions of explicable-implicit:

Modification	Community	Date Suggested	Summary	Date Assessed	Verdict	Verdict Rationale
Sciento-2018-0011	Scientonomy	28 December 2018	Accept the three-fold distinction between explicit, explicable-implicit, and inexplicable.	1 September 2019	Accepted	The consensus on this modification emerged primarily off-line. It was agreed that "the modification should be accepted".c1 It was also agreed "that the three-fold distinction is to be accepted as it introduces a distinction between explicable-implicit and inexplicable and thus contributes to the clarity of discussions concerning implicit and explicit."c2

Current Definition

In Scientonomy, the accepted definition of the term is Explicable-Implicit (Mirkin-Barseghyan-2018).

Explicable-Implicit (Mirkin-Barseghyan-2018) states: "Propositional knowledge that hasn’t been openly formulated by the agent."

This category encompasses that knowledge which hasn't been openly formulated by the agent but can, in principle, be open formulated. As such the category is agent-relative. The definition was first suggested by Hakob Barseghyan and Maxim Mirkin in their The Role of Technological Knowledge in Scientific Change1 and was restated by Mirkin in his The Status of Technological Knowledge in the Scientific Mosaic.

Ontology

Subtypes

In Scientonomy, there are currently no accepted subtypes of Explicable-Implicit.

Supertypes

In Scientonomy, the following supertype of Explicable-Implicit is currently accepted:

• Implicit

Disjointness

In Scientonomy, no classes are currently accepted as disjoint with Explicable-Implicit.

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Dynamics

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