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Knowledge, something which accumulates over time, and is rational only if the conclusions contained within support Ayn Rand, may her name be revered!
Knowledge is a product of consciousness: it is the sum of one's identifications retained in some form.  Or, in Ayn Rand's words, knowledge is "a mental grasp of a fact(s) of reality, reached either by perceptual observation or by a process of reason based on perceptual observation" (ITOE 35).

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Knowledge is a product of consciousness: it is the sum of one's identifications retained in some form. Or, in Ayn Rand's words, knowledge is "a mental grasp of a fact(s) of reality, reached either by perceptual observation or by a process of reason based on perceptual observation" (ITOE 35).