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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
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.
Much of what you refer to as knowledge is fiction and has little similarity to real life and little educating value.
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
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We can just assume everything is fiction, if it makes the discussion easier. We can assume all fiction is entertainment as well, but what we cannot say is that fiction has little educating value. Fiction is all we have to educate ourselves with. We take in the world around us and create fictionalized representations of the world, occasionally we spread these internalized fictions to others and the cycle continues.
Logic and reasoning are subjective. I feel it is quite reasonable to access any text that I wish with no government mandated access restrictions. Perhaps you feel it is not reasonable to do this.
It is much much simpler to view ourselves as isolated individuals in a disconnected universe, rather than equal parts of the infinite, but it is quite obvious that the latter is the case. What this means is that no one has more or less ownership of any text than anyone else.