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What is knowledge? According to the dictionary, knowledge means the state or fact of knowing, or the familiarity, awareness, or understanding gained through experience or study. Some modern philosophers who had debates in proving the theory of knowledge or epistemology included Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. These philosophers often had doubts, but had a piece of knowledge and our own existence. ... He believe in experiences and sensation rather then reasoning as a source of knowledge. He distinguished sensation and reflection as sources of experience, sensation as the knowledge of the external world, and expression as the knowledge of the mind. ...
European and modern philosophers believe that our knowledge is subjective and not rationality, universality, and objectivity. Subjective means that our knowledge comes from who we are in the world around us. Kant argues that knowledge is universal. ...
In conclusion, these philosophers have contributed on what knowledge is and what we can know.
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