ABSTRACT
The contrast between explicit and implicit does not depend on speech. Gestures can be explicit, very much so, and also images. The implicit does not depend on pre-linguistic bodily, gestural, and iconic experience. It is that which is understood by a speech community to be so much part of their shared assumptions that it does not need to be said in words, shown in gestures or otherwise depicted. In these essays I was trying to show that the implicit derives from shared efforts to organise.
