Letter: Letter

From L. Barton

Knowledge is not knowing any different until we do know different.

Put it this way: you find out you are wrong at the point when you discover
that a view you held turns out to be incorrect. But before that point, you were
certain you were right. Hence, your views on both occasions can be described as
“knowledge”.

For example, I believe that “Bob is in the office”. This is my current
knowledge of Bob’s whereabouts—even if it later turns out that Bob is not
in the office.

So to say that emotions, beliefs, opinions, myths and intuitions are not
knowledge is to miss the point. Knowledge is a quality of certainty, not a
quantum of information.

Slough