"X" is a derivative of the word cnawan, or erkennen.
"X" in itself signifies a lot of meanings, but is often associated with science,
Matter of fact Socrates defined science in terms of "X"
Oxford defines it as the "skill or expertise that can be bestowed or therein begotten by continually experience, retrieval, revision and re-itteration."
Plato called it justified true belief.
Aristotle in his book posterior analytics talks about it thus
"We suppose ourselves to possess unqualified scientific imperceptibility of a thing, as opposed to understanding it in the accidental way in which the sophist realize, when we think that we grasp the cause on which the fact depends, as the cause of that fact and of no other, and, further, that the fact could not be other than it is. Now that scientific recognition is something of this sort is evident — witness both those who falsely claim it and those who actually possess it, since the former merely imagine themselves to be, while the latter are also actually, in the condition described. Consequently the proper object of unqualified scientific imperceptibility is something which cannot be other than it is."
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Knowledge - Sharan
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