Reply #61: Because individual knowledge is completely dependent upon perception.

[geckosfeet]

They are intimately bound. Cultural or academic knowledge is a more static body, changing slowly over time, but still dependent upon collective perception.

I am not blurring the nature of knowledge, the blurring is part of it's own nature. My view is that knowledge exists on a spectrum, from lets say, absolute scientific objectivity (which IMO is still subject to perceptual influences) through completely psychological perception based only on ones brain activity unrelated to external stimuli - as in dreaming or hallucination.

Genetic vs environmental nature of knowledge points at the meaning of knowledge in the sense that it provides a fundamental source of knowledge. Is our knowledge a collection of our perceptions and experiences - beginning from within the womb, or are we born with some form of knowing, some way of acknowledging and reacting to/with our experience, being and environment. Or both.

IMO - "zeroing on a specific clear meaning of knowledge" is the timeless question for all philosophers. Can you do it? Yes. Is it the final word? No.