Both Uses
implicit
in
The Tipping Point
(Edited)
- Wegner argues that when people know each other well, they create an implicit joint memory system — a transactive memory system — which is based on an understanding about who is best suited to remember what kinds of things.
Chpt 5 *implicit = understood (without having been directly said)
- But we know, implicitly, where to go to find the answers to our questions — whether it is up to our spouse to remember where we put our keys or our thirteen-year-old to find out how to work the computer or our mother to find out details of our childhood.
Chpt 5 *implicitly = without question or doubt
Definitions:
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(implicit as in: not explicitly but implicitly) not stated directly, but understood (or capable of being understood) from something elseShared information is often divided into two categories: That which is said explicitly (directly in words that leave no room for confusion or doubt) and that which is said implicitly.
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(implicit as in: implicit problem with the design) exists as an inseparable part or characteristic
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(implicit as in: I trust her implicitly.) without question or doubt
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Another sense of the form implicitly is "without doubt or reserve" as in, "I trust Sue implicitly".
It is a more strongly stated sense of the more general meanings; e.g., "Sue implies trustworthiness," or "trustworthiness is inherent in Sue."