Knowledge

Knowledge is verified pattern. It is not raw information, but structured information that has been tested and shown to cohere with logic and experience. Knowledge emerges when perception is integrated with reasoning and results in structural consistency.

There are two primary categories:

Knowledge of Concepts
These are abstract patterns verified entirely through logical structure. Their truth is internal—determined by coherence, not by observation. This includes mathematics, definitions, tautologies, and fictional constructs. Fiction, while not necessarily real, is valid as a concept when it maintains internal consistency.
Knowledge of Existence
These are claims about what is. Such knowledge is always inferential. It arises from perception, filtered through interpretation and memory. Only the existence of one’s own present awareness can be directly verified. All other existential claims—about objects, others, or the world—remain assumptions, however reasonable.

Knowledge about the external world is always provisional. It is constructed through repeated observation, tested by reason, and revised upon contradiction. It is not certainty—it is the strongest form of belief: structured, coherent, and open to correction.