WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE? Knowledge is understanding. However, understanding knowledge (or what has been understood) is not so simplistic. Many scientist and psychologist have tried to understand how we are capable of gaining knowledge. The philosophers are the ones who ask the fundamental question of what exactly knowledge is. They want to know how it becomes available to us, and how we individually process it. With every answer to this question comes a criticism, and with …showed first 75 words of 4485 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4485 total…a brain and nothing else. So if I am a brain in a vat, it would be in my best interests not to find out because that would get me no where. So knowledge is the thoughts we have from and inspired by our surroundings. We then check this information with others and are able to have thoughts and form ideas. It is through this process that we obtain knowledge that is true. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**