How does one know what they know? Everything mankind has ever encountered has been recorded and examined. Everything is passed on, and like the saying goes, "you learn something new every day". I believe that is true, unless one lays in solitary away from all society. Through the internet is in my opinion the source for much of the information that I know. The average person uses the internet about 13 hours a week. No matter what they are doing on the internet they know or learn something new.
And I believe I know what I know through schooling, parents, and just living. It starts out when your a child, naive and innocent, with a "buttload" of curiosity waiting to be answered by your creators. Whether it be through communication or through records, one cannot very well erase something you know. Just by getting through the day I learn many things, for instance not to wear socks more than three times before washing them, no matter if you take a break from them and use another pair only to come back to the dirty ones. It is through self experience though, that you can really trust that you know what you know.
I completely agree with this idea that ones experiences and curiosity is what allows people to know what they know. I feel that sources such as the internet with pretty much an endless amount of knowledge (some credible and some not) allow us to choose what we wish to learn. I believe that if we are unable to get interested in what we read about, then we wont learn or will forget it quickly.
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