Homo Sexuality

When we talk about knowledge what we mean is knowledge about some object. Informally, knowledge is a description of the state of some object. The object may be either physical or abstract. Some examples of abstract objects include love, hate, memory, the future, and even knowledge itself. We naively believe that our knowledge of reality is direct, but this is a mistake. Our experience with physical objects is actually indirect. We do not directly mentally experience physical objects; we mentally experience only our concepts of them.

I define knowledge as a relation between two or more concepts, where concepts are mental objects. But these concepts do not exist apart from a conceptualizer, an intelligent being. Thus human knowledge is subjective and has no absolute meaning. However, we may postulate the existence of an all-knowing, eternal, perfect God that acts as an absolute standard of knowledge and truth, and though there are many reasons to do this we must admit that any definition of an absolute standard is both subjective and logically arbitrary.

I have been trying to convey the idea that knowledge has a different kind of existence than matter. For even if we allow that matter has an existence independent of intelligence, we cannot say the same for knowledge. Knowledge is very much like sound and color. When a tree falls in the forest it is assumed to make a lot of sound waves, but if there is no creature nearby capable of hearing, then it makes no sound. Likewise, when light reflects off an object it produces characteristic wavelengths of light, but neither the object nor the light are colored in themselves. Color exists in the mind of the perceiver. Color and sound are the brain's method of making sense out of external signals picked-up by our sensory organs. In like manner, knowledge does not exist without a knower, and there is no such thing as "unknown" knowledge.