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Good morning brother
great question


1 what you ask is a came under source of knowledge,it is called epistomology which study theory of knowledge,what should be our sorce of knowledge to know something!.

2 great german philosopher immanual kant raised some questions

1 what i should know!?
2 how i can know!?
3 what i ought to do!?

now the question arises what should be source of knowledge to know something better
it should be 1 perception
2 testimoney or inference

1 carvaka school of philosophy considered perception only as the main source of knowledge they rejected inference and testimoney!.

ndian athest school like carvaka considered perception as the true source of knowledge and mattar as the only reality
they belive that what we see is the only truth

but perception can be wrong many times for example we see the SUN shine and SUN set but in reality sun neither shine nor set,it is earth which revolve

so percepion can be good source of knowledge as well as false source in many cases

2 testimoney
testimoney means autority of a great sceintists or group of people,testimony is good source of knowledge for example everyone is not sceintists,we belive the earth revolve around the sun and it is proved by galileo,so we had to belive in autority of galileo we put his theory on logical ground and it prove right not everyone can know everything,for example hindus considered veda as the true authority of there religion
but authority can be wrong also many times,there can be some wrong belifes of authority,which people can belive,it can be wrong

for example for thousands of years people belive that earth is centre of universe by authority of bible and great philosopher aristotle also belive in it and for thousands of years people considered his theory right it was galileo who challenge im and put the right faith,so authority can be wrong many times

3 inference
inference is good source of knowledge my brother,for example if we see smoke that we infer it is result of fire,so we infere in hindi we can call it anumaan,we infer somethings in life for example we should not touch fire,we infer by other cases that those who touch fire had burn themselves,so inference can be good source of knowledge

but it can also be wrong many times for example we cant say that all the cases of fire have same smoke and in there future also the condition will remain the same

so if you want to know something there are three source of knowledge
1 perception,inference and testimoney
all of them can be right and wrong we had to judge them logically

Knowledge is useless unless you not apply it in your practical life,it is benefical only when you apply philosophical knowledge in your life,you will got wisdom
one get wisdom by applying knolwedge,if you not apply knowledge it is just dust in the mind

God bless you brother bye
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