Knowledge is a curious thing. Questions about how we know and why we know and what we can really be sure that we actually know have taunted even the sharpest intellects for centuries. And so we who approach such a loft concept this side of the twentieth century step into an ancient befuddlement—that’s right, befuddlement. But we must. We’ve got to give it a shot. Knowlege and our certainty of it is too importantly, too powerful to disregard. Knowledge informs everything. Knowledge effects
