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b. Hypotheses: Explicit provisional suppositions or conjectures explaining empirical research serve as starting points for the further investigation and can made more or less tenable by this research. In other words, hypotheses, like theories, are explicit and testable guesses about the world. B. Tacit knowledge: Knowledge we use that we cannot make explicit, as when we recognize that somebody is angry or felling pity without being able to describe just what it is about the persons face that expresses the mod. a. Exemplars: Members of a group agree exhibit certain qualities common to a class of object, processes, or ideas. Students study exemplars to gain new knowledge to grasp the analogy between two or more distinct situation and thus assimilate a time-tested and group licensed way of seeing, learning to apply the analogy to new, similar situations when they rise. b. Models: for a subject are representations sometimes analytic, sometimes more poetic that imply that one can learn how the subject acts by treating the model as if it were the subject itself. Models express primarily tacit knowledge behave like tiny elastic billiard ball in random motion.