JOAQUIN MARTIN R.

BAJA
GROUP 2 - PHILOSOPHY

How do you know that you know?

First of all, I’d like to apologize for using a font that’s deemed informal or
childlike in the eyes of people. However, I have read that changing one’s use of
fonts when writing helps in seeing errors when revising and when you’ve run out
of words to write down. Also, Comic Sans is Dyslexia-friendly. Not that I’m
Dyslexic but a font like this is easy on the eyes so I’m testing it out. How it’ll turn
out, we’ll see. Bod or good it’s still an experience. Everything has the possibility
of being good or bad depending on circumstance, even knowledge itself. These
experiences and what it brings, we absorb it when we encounter it whether it is
through a book or in our daily lives and we apply it to how we live. So all in all, what
we know is a collection of past experiences, like reading about something on the
internet or a feeling you once had before, and in knowing that we know, one must
first become aware.

Awareness is knowledge that something exists or understanding of a

situation or subject at the present time based on information or experience. In
relation to answering the question, I think the awareness that you know something
is a good enough reason to say that you know it. I can confidently say that Minas
Morgul, a fictional place in the Lord of The Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien, is
located near Mordor and is where the Witch King of Angmar resides because I’m
aware that it’s there based on the movie and the books. You’ve mentioned before
Sir that you can’t claim originality of most of your thoughts because it has been
influenced one way or another therefore it is not entirely of your own. Hearing
that made me aware that what I know is but the effect of a cause. On another
note, this knowledge that I have is not the complete set yet for it is subject to
refinement in the future as everything I know has the potential to be changed in
the future. However, that doesn’t shy away from my point that I know what I
know because I am aware that I know it. As you have said Sir, our thoughts have
been influenced in some way or another by external or internal forces but the
awareness that you know that you’re influenced by something or someone is
entirely your own.

Before, I thought of answering the question with only a “Because I believe

I do” but thankfully it evolved into this. Think about it, you can’t say you know
something unless you’re aware of it in the first place. Like pain, I know what pain
is because I’ve felt it before and I am now made aware that if it hurts, then it’s
pain. So, I know that I know because I’m aware of it.