"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it to confess your ignorance"-Confucius.* How do I know what I know? And why should anyone believe me?
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"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it to confess your ignorance"-Confucius.* How do I know what I know? And why should anyone believe me? These are the 2 questions I will attempt to clarify in my essay. Knowledge in its most basic form would be what helps me to make it to the next day. I know that when I wake up in the morning the ground will be there, unless some catastrophe occurs and land as we know ceases to exist. To know that when I wake in the morning I won't have to gasp for air is knowledge, this knowledge helps me survive and surviving in this world to me is a great accomplishment. A lot of us derive our knowledge from the daily newspaper, it is the best source to derive information and until they can come up with a better and more...

