She argued that through critical reflection, the tacit or hidden ideas and assumptions that underlie our values and practice are uncovered; her plea was that we find ways of opening up our practice for scrutiny in order to become critically reflective practitioners.
GPs reported that they use metaphors - often a tangible physical mechanism indicating some kind of imbalance between load and capacity - that reflect their tacit beliefs and ideas about the nature of MUS.
If people get out of the habit of using words and terms that tacitly promote racist ideas, for instance, those ideas will start to lose their cultural influence.
If we say otherwise, it is in tacit agreement with the idea of racial purity, and we all know where that dangerous myth can lead.
Michael Polanyi's idea of tacit knowing and Martin Heidegger's concept of pre-theoretical shared practice are presented as providing a strong rationale for the notion of practice based knowledge.
The idea of tacit or implicit popular consent, resorted to by several old-fashioned monarchies and empires, fell before the march of modern democratic theory as developed from the American and French revolutions.
Several such bills are pending in Congress, and Mr. Stark said that with his action today Mr. Bush had given "tacit approval" to the idea of restricting all assault-style weapons.
But focusing on these procedures and the unpopularity of the bill rather than the content of the legislation is a tacit endorsement of the idea that a representative government should make policy based on its popularity.
An important objection to the idea of tacit consent is that it begs the question about how a state gets its authority.
