tacit
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- IPA: /ˈtæsɪt/
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- Rhymes: -æsɪt
[edit] Adjective
tacit (comparative more tacit, superlative most tacit)
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- Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection.
- 1983. ROSEN, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62.
- He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer
- 1983. ROSEN, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62.
- (logic) Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.
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Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent
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Not derived from formal principles of reasoning
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