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Originally Posted by Giggleton
I must admit to not quite knowing what knowledge is, it's easier to just say the universe is the sum of all knowledge.
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Perhaps easier but what does it mean?
I think Knowledge in the context of this discussion is what someone knows through actual experience. Not what they read in a book or see on TV.
For example I may know that I am not wearing socks or it is raining.
I may think I know what makes people happy, how to beat the slots, or the best way to educate people. Until I have made everybody in the world happy, taught everybody everything or won all the money in the world on the slots then that is still pure conjecture and wishful thinking on my part.
Much of what you refer to as knowledge is fiction and has little similarity to real life and little educating value.
The non-fiction is just a method or an opinion shared by one or many. Access to these methods or opinions whether free or not can be good or bad. Good in that they start you thinking, bad when they do all of your thinking for you. (Assuming that they are right to start with)
If you base your knowledge on other people's opinions that you read in books then you lose the power of reasoning for yourself and become a parrot.
Helen