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A brief philosophical reflection on the nature of knowledge, defining it as the small portion of ignorance that humanity can organize and categorize.
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A brief philosophical reflection on the nature of knowledge, defining it as the small portion of ignorance that humanity can organize and categorize.
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“To the small part of ignorance that we can arrange and classify we give the name Knowledge.”
What we call knowledge is merely a tiny fraction of our ignorance that we have managed to organize and label.
The chapter presents a cynical or humbling view of human knowledge, suggesting it is a subset of ignorance.
