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What is knowledge ?
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Knowledge is something a person trusts is true.
So faith is more basic than knowledge?
Yes. It should be.
Well we do have to have faith that anything can be known I suppose, even the laws of thought are only accepted as self evident axioms. So maybe all knowledge gathering, self and occult to modern science, is a practice of faith?
I ask you what is the difference between knowledge and wisdom? What is knowledge? It could be said that knowledge is all that is accumulated through the study and practice of certain information that is gathered. Wisdom is the insight, Understanding, and philosophy that is developed over years of contemplation and practice of certain knowledge.
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Twig pentagram
High Priest
Things that we know.
I disagree with this somewhat. I know a lot of things that I essentially cannot share via communication easily. I can explain the concept of a fulcrum because I can whip together a board, a log, and some sort of rig to demonstrate the function it serves in the operation of a lever. When speaking of other concepts it is not so easy... Some things cannot be viewed or witnessed outside of the primary observer. It is impossible to directly share this information even if it is explained -- trust me I have tried.
1) You can explain it and they may listen if they happen to agree. Usually they already share some related experience.
2) You can show them the process required to generate the results, but seldom do they have the will or ability.
3) They categorize your diatribe as beliefs instead of researched facts because they don't understand the difference. Their mindset allows faith to over-ride personally obtained information or be used in place of it so they assume yours does too.
4) Dismiss information early due to excessive skepticism or fear.
Generally, it is a miracle if anyone is listening to you when you type anything.
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Orias
Left Hand Path
Perhaps, but anything deemed as "information" is shareable in the vaguest of applications.
Even if we...disagree
I would contend that the majority of what people fill their craniums with is hunches. For example the average Christian believes in the literal resurrection of Christ regardless of the fact of whether he or she is a doctor, school teacher, or police man. It is however completely unlikely that such a thing in fact occurred in a direct literal sense. It is possible that it was more likely a symbolic use of phrasing to indicate for example that the spirit of ones message may live on eternally or some such... That is much more likely, and probably much closer to what the biblical authors probably intended. But who really knows? It was two-thousand years ago... That doesn't stop the average Joe from accepting the latter as fact in modern times and they KNOW this is the truth of course despite how completely unlikely it is.
Knowledge is nothing without data and supporting facts as it can be as real as an imaginary friend and most of what people believe is along these lines. The way they handle relationships, seek employment, and all the other important things is largely governed by a pile of bull they tell themselves.