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Tacit knowledge is highly personal, difficult to formalize, express, and share.
This is often described as subjective knoweldge as it is often composed of insights, intuitions, and emotion. It is easily formalized and shared. Explicit knowledge has been created by experience, observation, and learning. Tacit knowledge can be acquired without words or language and it is mainly acquired through experience. Metaphor is a way of perceiving or intuitively understanding one thing by imaging another thing symbolically.