Knowledge is indeed something that shaped millions of minds. So did a poem, a fiction, a lie. A love poem is just an opinion, but the knowledge about love of a stranger can move hearts and shape ideas which can be realistic or not. Swimming in the informational pool and seeing from where each fishy comes is a tedious task, we can understand why some would rather enjoy the view and stop wondering. Seeking true knowledge demands effort and the human mind is comfortable

Eh why is this being downvoted $20?  

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I think the concept of truth has always been present even before we came to be. Thus an idea circling one's head can be described as *truth* even not at first being demonstrable, afterwards being worked on it can be shown. As proof there's the example of Einstein. At first it takes to approach it mentally, afterwards try and fail and at the end to succeed. That we can't see it in the first place and need proof doesn't take away the truth being there in the first place. It only confirms it.

I wonder if there is a level 3 or beyond. Oh, maybe I'm getting too meta here lol.

That is as poetry. You have a way with words my friend. I have received up votes from you often but I think hive bots just vote me back down. It is nice to see your votes.


To know of something but not know if it is true "(level 1 knowledge)" would be to believe. And in my opinion, a miss use of the word "know". There is nothing wrong with belief but, it is faith based and should be treated as such. One can Believe that they know something but be wrong.

Most people have accepted being taught something to be the same as knowing something and will defend what they have been taught as there own knowledge. Especially if it comes from a screen. It seems that more recently Wikipedia has become a "minister of knowledge."

Many of those who are pronounced to be the most knowledgeable of us actually know very little. To receive these accolades of so called knowledge, one must read, believe, remember and repeat what others have already clamed to know or, fail the numerous tests that one is required to pass before getting recognition as knowledgeable.

This process we call education strives to divide knowledge and true when in reality they intrinsic. To know something it must be true. (level 2 knowledge). 

To Know how to do something is knowledge. To be able to do that thing is to combine your knowledge with your ability. One can know how to do something but not be able to do it. They could also Know that they Know how to do it, but still not be able to do it. For example someone who has done something in the past but is now disabled or no longer has the recourses.

Finally I would like to add another aspect of knowledge very seldom considered. The fact that knowledge can be a mater of opinion and still hold true. For example, you may know something is good because it truly is good for you. At the same time I may know that the same thing is bad, as it truly is bad for me.

I enjoyed your post, friend. I hope you read my reply and enjoy equally.

And now I’m going to throw a monkey wrench into this wonderful discourse...

The 3rd level is a reversion back to the starting line of knowing... because all truth contains within it the seed of its opposite. It is through the context of dark that we understand light and it is by light that we understand dark. The full picture is not clear one without the other. 

So it is here that I say this... Knowing is a seed born from the understanding that it is not what you know but what you don’t know.

Truth therefore is relative to the situation and the objective view. One context shifts the perspective bringing to light a new layer of knowledge just below ones conscious self.

There is no end to the search because knowing depends entirely on the context of its next layer of secrets.

We as finite human beings never arrive... until mortalities knock sounds upon the door.

Then and only then will everything we thought we knew as truth fade away into brilliant all knowing.

The knowledge of good and evil has its demise in its relation to relative context (time, and perception) Truth is more a byproduct of the shifting reality than a static state of absolute fixed in time and space.

Objectivism and theories of concepts underly cognition and measurement. Since its all in a constant perceptual stage, i agree that we must explore much of the limitations of knowledge. Essence to me is epistemological. Some of these concepts in earlier philosophies rose through arbitrary meanings. Some abstractions again, at some point became Axiomatic concepts. Something that is perceived directly but grasped conceptually are to different things.  To identify them consciously and self consciously as an epistemological need can be a very ambiguous endeavor.