Knowledge

[N_igma]

If you were talking to someone and they asked you a question e.g. 'What is the state capital of Virginia?' Now if you knew the answer somewhere in the vicinity of your brain but couldn't answer it there or ever in your mind do you truly know the answer?

 

[danny la rouge]

If you later say "Richmond!" out loud but nobody's there to hear you, have you said it?

 

[NoXion]

If you truly do know the answer somewhere in there, then you'll come up with it sooner or later. Maybe if you do remember it, it will be because of something you saw that reminded you. Human memory isn't something ordered and static like a filing cabinet filled with folders, but rather it is more like an ever-shifting cloud of tenuous connections and vague associations, some more reinforced through repetition than others.

 

[toblerone3]

If you were talking to someone and they asked you a question e.g. 'What is the state capital of Virginia?' Now if you knew the answer somewhere in the vicinity of your brain but couldn't answer it there or ever in your mind do you truly know the answer?

Whats preventing a man from waking it and replying.

 

[One dog]

If you were talking to someone and they asked you a question e.g. 'What is the state capital of Virginia?' Now if you knew the answer somewhere in the vicinity of your brain but couldn't answer it there or ever in your mind do you truly know the answer?

If you subsequently remember the answer without looking it up, then of course you 'knew' it, you merely forgot it and then remembered.