Inexplicit

Referring to ideas that are not expressed in words or equations.

Inexplicit knowledge is often underappreciated. Institutions relying heavily on inexplicit knowledge are vulnerable to rash attacks — Revolutionary changes that destroy embedded solutions without understanding them. Much of what makes societies and individuals function well is inexplicit.

Connections

• •Contrasts with Explicit — ideas articulated in words or equations
• •Distinguished from Implicit — inexplicit means unarticulated, implicit means logically entailed
• •Can be Conscious or Unconscious
• •Background Knowledge is often inexplicit
• •Institutions encode crucial inexplicit knowledge
• •Vulnerable to Revolutionary change that ignores embedded solutions
• •Disbelief may reflect inexplicit knowledge conflicting with a claim
• •Culture carries inexplicit knowledge across generations