Knowledge

Knowledge is our human ability to understand something fully. In order for us to understand things, we have to experience them for ourselves. We have to see something with our own eyes, before we will believe that it exists. We cannot fully “know”, or understand something, even if someone else completely describes it to us, because we did not experience it, firsthand. Another reason that we cannot fully “know” something is because of the fact that our ideas can limit us, when our experiences filter through our ideas.”. Our ideas have the ability to dominate what we truly know.

We often use the word“know” to describe things that we have experienced in our everyday life, such as knowing what classes are easiest, what clubs or activities are best and other points that we deal with every day. However, we still cannot fully “know”these things. For example, even though we have experienced a particular class, we have not fully experienced it in its entirety, (because it is the beginning of the school year, and we have only had a few weeks of classes). We could say however, that we “know” the courses that we took last year are important, because we have completed those courses, and have encountered all of the experiences of that particular class. It is impossible for us to truly know something, if we have not experienced it for ourselves.