In the ongoing discussion of tacit knowing/knowledge, the Scandinavian Wittgensteinians are a very
active force. In close connection with the Swedish Center for Working Life in Stockholm, their work provides
us with a wonderful example of the fruitful collaboration between philosophical reflection and empirical
research. In the Wittgensteinian approach to the problem of tacit knowing/knowledge, Kell S. Johannessen
is the leading figure. In addition, philosophers like Harald Grimen, Bengt Molander and Allan Janik also make
contributions to the discussion in their own ways. In this paper, I will try to clarify the main points of their
contribution to the discussion of tacit knowing/knowledge.
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Johannessen observes:
It has in fact been recognized in various camps that propositional knowledge, i.e, knowledge
expressible by some kind of linguistic means in a propositional form, is not the only type of
knowledge that is scientifically relevant. Some have, therefore, even if somewhat reluctantly,
accepted that it might be legitimate to talk about knowledge also in cases where it is not possible
to articulate it in full measure by proper linguistic means.
Johannessen, using Polanyi’s terminology, calls the kind of knowledge that cannot be fully articulated by
verbal means tacit knowledge.
Tacit Knowledge: A Wittgensteinian Approach by Zhenhua Yu
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