Link
There are two important phases to gaining knowledge:
Experience the world, and,
Process it.
I’ve mentioned the importance of experience before. This is about the importance of the second step.
The ‘processing’ of our experience is the act of looking for connections and realisations and links and relevance, to other parts of our experience and character.
The study of logic, the study of philosophers, and even the study of knowledge, often raises a concept of relevance, and the possibilities of links between one topic and another.
This is where the magic is – this is where new knowledge thrives.