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which are the best ways to achieve knowledge?

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To answer this question I think it is necessary to firstly define the word knowledge. According to the English dictionary knowledge is the familiarity, awareness, or understanding gained through experience or study or the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned. Plato said that for us to know something there are some conditions: it must be true, we must actually believe it and there must be sufficient evidence of it. He also stated that "There is nothing in the mind except what was first in the senses". To answer the essay question I am going to base it on this argument. There are various sources where we can get knowledge from: experience, reason, emotions... It can be said that all human-beings adopt knowledge by simple nature; it is our senses that see, tough, smell, taste or hear a reality and transform it into knowledge for our brains to store....

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