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Note I said a "huge portion of knowledge." There is sensory knowledge as you have pointed out, but my point was that there are also institutions and individuals that produce knowledge outside of your sensor experience that you readily accept. When you read an academic paper you do not repeat all the experiements contained within it and its review of the literature. It would be inefficent. You accept because it is in an academic journal or because person X tells you it that it is reliable and true.
But to some extent even sensory knowledge is filtered through the institution of langauge.
You have been inconsistent about this. You did say,
But you also said,
which is what I commented on, and which seems to be speaking of "knowledge" generally. You then later doubled down with:
Did you mean instead, "knowledge includes any legitimized information"?
Yes. I am sorry I did not clarify that. For me it is assumed that legitimized knowledge includes self-legitmized knowledge because the self is clearly a major authority in a person's life.
I am writing too fast and not taking into account that you all do not have a background in sociology or anthropology.