Knowing (Apr. 21)

To know something is a very interesting phenomenon. In the biblical language of Hebrew the verb that is often translated to know means a very intimate knowledge such that to know another person meant to have sexual relations with that person. You could not fully know someone without that being the case. To know a fact in a similar light seems to also incorporate that intimate nature. If you know, for instance, that strawberries are red you have had either some experience of a strawberry being red. There is a personal connection in the fact and who you are in order to know something. Many people think they know things but in reality do not know what they think they know. For instance you could know that apples are red, perhaps because all the apples that you ahve ever seen are red. Then one day you find what looks like an apple but it is green. If you know that apples are red then it could not possibly be an apple. But as you probably know there are apples that are green, yellow and red. In these examples knowing is based on experience, but one could claim that the way we experience thing relies on our own imperfect senses. If we cannot have certainty that our senses gather information in a correct way then we cannot rely on experience to honestly know something. But how else might you know something?