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Stephen Downes

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Good overview of Polanyi's and Nonaka's theories of tacit knowledge with the intent of proving (contra Nonaka) that there is some tacit knowledge that cannot be formalized. I like his employment of von Krogh's autopoiesis theory, the idea that knowledge is creational and based on distinction making in observation, that knowledge is history dependent and thus is context sensitive, and therefore that knowledge is directly transferable. This is true to Polanyi: knowledge is a process, not a thing.

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