Towards the New Episteme: Basic Methodology for Knowledge and Tacit Knowledge

摘要

A basic methodology for the new episteme, including the typology and a definition of knowledge and tacit knowledge, is proposed. Several types of knowledge and the corresponding tacit knowledge are discussed in a philosophical context. There are many types of knowledge and tacit knowledge using different methods of sharing. The main problem with the effective sharing of tacit knowledge is to share a knowledge relevant to the given problem. There are possible the transfer, change and transformation of tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge. An example of such a transition, which I call conceptualization, is described. Conceptualization is an example of what is generally known as codification or articulation (of tacit knowledge). Conceptualization exemplifies how new knowledge can be created with the use of tacit knowledge. However, usually we consider only the transfer of tacit knowledge in the form of tacit knowledge only, i. e. the starting and the ending points of such a transfer is tacit knowledge, what is totally inadequate. Therefore, it is not generally true that tacit knowledge always must be indefinite "in words". There is a need for a professional collaboration between knowledge science, knowledge management and philosophy in this field.