There are several words often used more or less indiscriminately to express what we mean when we say we know anything, and as knowing is known only to a knower, words relating to knowing are not definable ultimately other than by appeal to the knowingness in a knower.
We may say we know a thing, we are aware of it, we are conscious of it, we feel it, we sense it, etc.
AwarenessAwareness is derived from the Old English “waer”, “cautious”. It is cognate with the Latin v..., consciousnessConsciousness is that within which people, things, events and relationships appear. The word “cons..., feeling, sensation; all these words refer to that whereby we know what we know. It is significant and important that we cannot indicate what we mean by one of these words without appealing to that in us which corresponds with their significance, that is, to that in us which knows that it knows. From this fact may be shown the ultimate infiniteness of sentienceSentience, Awareness, Consciousness, Feeling, Sensation; all these words refer to 'that whereby we k....
All these words refer to that in and by which we know; if we persist in asking what we mean by this we can reply only, “We know what we mean. ConsciousnessConsciousness is that within which people, things, events and relationships appear. The word “cons... is its own evidence. Self evidence is the means whereby sentienceSentience, Awareness, Consciousness, Feeling, Sensation; all these words refer to 'that whereby we k... knows itself.”
Knowledge is a now-moment balanced precariously upon a sword-edge between what has been and what will be.
WisdomThe English poet & artist William Blake said “The fool sees not the same tree the wise man see... is in infinity.
Knowledge becomes empty in the momentThe ‘point of orientation’. Time is quantised as moments, for it is made of impulses to orientat... of its fullness.
WisdomThe English poet & artist William Blake said “The fool sees not the same tree the wise man see... is a full void. – E.H.