tacit knowledge

knowledge that is informally acquired rather than explicitly taught and allows a person to succeed in certain environments and pursuits. It is stored without awareness and therefore is not easily articulated. Many everyday skills are of this kind, such as the ability to recognize faces or to speak one’s native language. Also called implicit knowledge; unconscious knowledge. [proposed by Hungarian-born British scientist and philosopher Michael Polanyi (1891–1976)]

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May 8th 2024

drug tolerance

see tolerance.