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CCXXIX explained
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.
Key passages
“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.