Explicit
What is explicit knowledge? How should it be defined?
The distinction between explicit and implicit/tacit has played a prominent role in the discussions concerning scientific change, including scientonomic discourse. As such, having a clear definition of what explicit means is an important task.
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 has been openly formulated by the agent.
Scientonomic History
Acceptance Record
Community | Accepted From | Acceptance Indicators | Still Accepted | Accepted Until | Rejection Indicators |
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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 Theories
Theory | Formulation | Formulated In |
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Explicit (Mirkin-Barseghyan-2018) | Propositional knowledge that has been openly formulated by the agent. | 2018 |
Accepted Theories
Community | Theory | Accepted From | Accepted Until |
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Scientonomy | Explicit (Mirkin-Barseghyan-2018) | 1 September 2019 |
Suggested Modifications
Modification | Community | Date Suggested | Summary | Verdict | Verdict Rationale | Date Assessed |
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Sciento-2018-0011 | Scientonomy | 28 December 2018 | Accept the three-fold distinction between explicit, explicable-implicit, and inexplicable. | 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 | 1 September 2019 |
Current Definition
In Scientonomy, the accepted definition of the term is Explicit (Mirkin-Barseghyan-2018).
Explicit (Mirkin-Barseghyan-2018) states: "Propositional knowledge that has been openly formulated by the agent."
According to this definition, knowledge is said to be explicit if it has been openly formulated by the agent in question. As such the notion of explicit 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
Existence
There is currently no accepted view concerning the existence of explicits.
Disjointness
No classes are currently accepted as being disjoint with this class.
Subtypes
No classes are currently accepted as subtypes of an explicit.
Supertypes
In Scientonomy, the following supertype of Explicit is currently accepted:
Associations
No associations of an explicit are currently accepted.
Epistemic Stances Towards Explicits
The question has no accepted answer.
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Dynamics
Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Explicits
The question has no accepted answer.
Necessary Explicits
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References
- ^ Barseghyan, Hakob and Mirkin, Maxim. (2019) The Role of Technological Knowledge in Scientific Change. In Héder and Nádasi (Eds.) (2019), 5-17.