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Aldous Huxley on Knowledge vs understanding
Knowledge | Understanding |
Model of Reality | Reality Itself |
partial awareness | Totality of understanding |
fitting new experience into system of concepts based on our old experiences | Liberate ourselves from old ;so we make a direct unmediated contact with new , the mystery |
can be transmitted as concepts -through words,symbols | intimate and subjective, as aura of immediacy cast upon experience |
results of an experience | Experience itself;Understanding is the raw material of knowledge |
All of us are knowers all the time | Only occassionally we understand the Reality |
Authors
Aldous Huxley
Maria Popova
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