Implicit

What is implicit 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. Thus, it is important to have a clear definition of the term.

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:

• Not explicit.

Scientonomic History

Acceptance Record

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 Theories

The following definitions of the term have been suggested:

Theory	Formulation	Formulated In
Implicit (Mirkin-Barseghyan-2018)	Not explicit.	2018

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Accepted Theories

The following definitions of the term have been accepted:

Community	Theory	Accepted From	Accepted Until
Scientonomy	Implicit (Mirkin-Barseghyan-2018)	1 September 2019

Suggested Modifications

Here is a list of modifications concerning this term:

Modification	Community	Date Suggested	Summary	Verdict	Verdict Rationale	Date Assessed
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 Implicit (Mirkin-Barseghyan-2018).

Implicit (Mirkin-Barseghyan-2018) states: "Not explicit."

Implicit is the opposite of explicit and, thus, it doesn't require more than a very minimalist definition. This definition creates a strong link between the two concepts and won't require any changes in the definition of implicit when the respective definition of explicit happens to change.

Ontology

Existence

There is currently no accepted view concerning the existence of implicits.

Disjointness

No classes are currently accepted as being disjoint with this class.

Subtypes

No classes are currently accepted as subtypes of an implicit.

Supertypes

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

• Epistemic Element

Associations

In Scientonomy, there are currently no accepted associations of Implicit.

Epistemic Stances Towards Implicits

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Dynamics

Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Implicits

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Necessary Implicits

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