Knowlege is?

          Knowledge is believing and justifying something true. It is often associated with logic and reason because these things are what make up facts or things that are true. For instance, we know that we did not make ourselves; this is a truth that adds to our knowledge and knowing things. Knowing things involves understanding and accepting things that we later reiterate in some fashion.

            However, knowing things and knowledge do not develop until after all things have been named. In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” the prisoners name the objects on the wall and thus it is their truth. They “know” those objects until one prisoner is set free and climbs up into the light of the cave. He is blinded until he sees and begins to name the familiar objects that he sees with what he knows. What he knows, he comes to learn is false and he learns the actual names and meanings. Then Plato illustrates how we are stubborn with what we know because when the freedman re-enters the cave to gather his prisoners they attack and try to kill him.

            Knowledge is a varying term because when you know something and are proven wrong, you act stubbornly. You are stubborn because knowledge is belief and justification of something you didn’t know before. We learn truths, facts, logic, and skills that are all acquired into what we call knowledge. And our knowledge becomes our power because we can act superior to ignorant prisoners.