Questions on knowing…

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How do we know something?

How do we know that we know it – or enough of it to grasp the breadth of it?

How do we know that it can be trusted as true?

Are there different kinds of knowing?

Can knowing only happen when it is taught?

Do we know through individual or gathered (collective) experience?

Is knowing only human or are there animalistic forms of the same?

Can we take a form of knowing relevant to one area of expertise and apply it to all others?

What is the relationship between knowing and faith?

What is the relationship between knowing and religion?

What is the relationships between knowing and mysticism?

What is the relationships between knowing and politics?

Can we only know things through context and circumstance, or are there purer forms of knowing that exist outside of narrow experience?

Can we ever know something without also knowing how that thing relates to proximal positions that surround it, or even contradict it?

If we know something, so what? What is that knowing for? What does it accomplish?

Could those things be accomplished without the knowing?

Does knowing make things better, or can it also make things much worse?

What do you know?

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