From Jim Packer, Macquarie Fields, New South Wales, Australia
Attempts to define “knowledge” seem to make an impossible demand (1 April, p 32). Knowledge is the relation between knower and known. As a relational “thing”, it has no qualities and can only be pinned down at the point of relation, whatever that is. “Knowing something” is not a “state”, “complex” or otherwise. Epistemology, the study of what it means to know, is ill-served by any idea of states, even when the state is honestly admitted to have a nature that extends beyond itself – whatever that can be taken to mean.
