Reply #22: There's a difference between a path to knowledge and knowledge itself

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You may gain important perspectives on the human condition by reading Shakespeare, but that doesn't mean a real Macbeth had a real Banquot murdered.

I can't prove one way or the other whether these people have it all wrong or right

What does that have to do with consistent use of the word "knowledge", and the reliability and track record of "other ways of knowing"? Further, that a thing cannot be absolutely proven right or wrong is so common that it's hardly worth mentioning. It certainly doesn't make the rightness or wrongness of everything beyond complete proof a 50/50 proposition.