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There an easy way to check whether that might be true. Look at the producers of dictionaries. Webster:
information, understanding, or skill that you get from experience or educationawareness of something : the state of being aware of somethingMaybe the guys at that dictionary are an expection. Let's look at the Cambridge dictionary:
understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study, either known by one person or by people generally:the state of knowing about or being familiar with somethingStudying philosophy mislead you. Neither of those definitions speaks about justification or truth.
They aren't really defining it just using synonyms.
I don't think saying that
knowledgeisinformation that's due to experience of educationis giving a synonym.But even if someone defines a term via synonym they are still defining the term. It's worthwhile to note that different people interact with language differently.
At the moment where you accept the framing of the question as the only way to look at the issue, you miss a lot of real world usage of the concept in question by people who don't use the same framing as you do.