what is knowledge!!! what is knowing!!!! what does it mean to know!!!! nobody knows anything!!!!! knowledge might be unattainable!!!!!!! aaaaaaa!!!!!

now that that's out of the way, well — what is there to say? my professors have all said that the whole of philosophy is nothing but a footnote to plato, and no offence but i genuinely cannot believe how true this is up to the present day.

perhaps even more timely with the present post-truth society wherein the borders of 'knowing' and 'thinking' and 'feeling' are all being blurred together like some impressionist painting, i think that more people ought to read this book so that they might think more deeply about their own beliefs and prior conceptions of the world.

in the end, i finish this review with just about the highest word of praise i can muster for this book —

some two and a half millennia on, we're still asking ourselves the same question posed in this book: what is knowledge, really?

(& do you know?)