Knowledge is not only learned; it is experienced. For example, a person who earns their first paycheck knows what it's like to be independent.

a person who earns their first paycheck knows what it's like to be independent.

Only if that paycheck is sufficient to provide independence.

99% percent of knowledge is learned....everything except for the basic functions of life....everything else is based on experience, theories, and teachings.....

Interesting article,
~Zoo

I'm going to use an analogy here just to be simple and quick.  I tend to look at us when we are born as clay.  Our environment and experiences mold the clay but it doesn't change the composition of the original material (clay) that was there. 

Is there a difference between how we learned something and how we know it to be true? For instance, we may have learned that a particular building is three stories high because someone told us about the building, but we know it to be true because of the number of rows of windows and landings on the stair case. (or, we learned the Earth is round in school we know its true because Magellan sailed all the way around.)

I think that all knowledge must be learned, because we came into the world with a blank slate, (brain-wise). This is the case for the human race as a whole. Whether our learned knowledge is correct, (i.e. whether it's aligned with 'what is so'), is another matter. Our knowledge of reality is effectively a map of the territory. 'What is so' must exist independantly of our knowledge about it, otherwise there would be nothing at all. Thus, our maps can sometimes be misaligned with the territory.

some “matter of fact” examples; in fact, let’s take Hume’s favorite example. The sun will rise tomorrow morning.

This isn't a matter of fact, because it depends on our point of view. If we are in outer space inbetween galaxies, then the sun will not rise tomorrow morning. But it will for some people. I think that all human values and experience are based 100% on relations of ideas. Our maps are necessarily drawn from within our minds, which are inherently subjective.

It's possible that everything we know is wrong.

sorry to be a cunt. I wouldn't like my posts either. arrogant twat

did i say we were in space?

I'm in space. I always am. I was talking about myself. I get bored easily and need to rustle up some drama. I've also learned that I sound like a twat in my posts. So I try to compenstate.

If we were in outer space? I meant being out there all alone, like a lost spaceman, with no planet earth to stand on. Then there would be no sunrise tomorrow.

What if everything exists only in a Universal Consciousness? Everything would be an illusion. Except for the fact that everything is a sublime Idea, (albeit 'crystallised' into seeming inanimate matter), created by the Infinite Mind. This would be the nature of 'the Infinite'.

Could this be "the Truth"?

All of our world religions, and the wisdom of the ages, have been trying to tell us that this is so, since the dawn of mankind.

Let's keep an open mind. "?

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ... And God said, 'Let there be light” (John 1.1; Gen 1.3.) "