{"id":46,"date":"2009-10-05T21:47:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T21:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2010-01-06T17:33:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T17:33:51","slug":"obversereverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Obverse\/Reverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a teenager my mother won a mint set of coins in a display case; a neat prize. Something that surprised me when I looked at it in detail was that the coins with the Queen&#8217;s head on were described as the <em>obverse<\/em> of the coin, and those with the distinctive design the <em>reverse<\/em>. This contradicted something that was part of my (mistaken) tacit knowledge about the world, i.e. that the distinctive side was the front, and the Queen&#8217;s head the back (probably being rooted in learning about coins by looking at the side on which the amount was displayed so as to learn the denomination).<\/p>\n<p>Bizarrely, I&#8217;ve never been able to square this objective knowledge with my tacit <em>feeling<\/em> that the Queen&#8217;s head is on the back. I have known objectively that the Queen&#8217;s head is the front of the coin for around 25 years. However, I still basically <em>grok<\/em> that the Queen&#8217;s head is on the back. I wonder if this kind of conflict between tacit and explicit knowledge is a known and studied phenomenon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a teenager my mother won a mint set of coins in a display case; a neat prize. Something that surprised me when I looked at it in detail was that the coins with the Queen&#8217;s head on were described as the obverse of the coin, and those with the distinctive design the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5,18,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}