# CCXXIX explained — Poetry

> Chapter companion for Poetry by Ambrose Bierce.

## What happens

A brief philosophical reflection on the nature of knowledge, defining it as the small portion of ignorance that humanity can organize and categorize.

## Key lines

> 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._

## Links

- HTML: https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poetry_se/chapters/ccxxix
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- All chapters: https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poetry_se/chapters