LIN204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tacit Knowledge, Can Opener, List Of Domesticated Animals
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Meaning able to list the steps to be followed in order to produce a result. Information about how to produce a result is at an unconscious level. Turn on a light switch, light an oven and start an automobile etc. (both focal and tacit) If you drive a car, you have unconscious knowledge how to steer an automobile. (tacit knowledge) If the wind blows your cars to the right when you are driving at high speed, you must make rapid and precise calculations to make that move in order to maintain forward motion steady as possible. (focal knowledge) Meaning recommends how to speak, authorizes what is right or. To whom are you speaking?" (proper english) -> better to say. Tom ain"t there. " (bad english, ungrammatical) -> advised to say. Give an account of the characteristics of something. Who are you speaking to?" (common, every day english) Used in most professional interactions, official correspondence, national media, and in most literature.
