I'm sorry LH, but if knowing means nothing more than deep, confident feelings that you hold so firmly that you don't...or emotionally can't, question them, then it becomes a hollow, though personally meaningful, concept.

What do you say to people who KNOW that G.W. Bush and the Republican party are the best thing for America? Delusions come in varied formats and strengths.

I'm sure that you are using (or trying to use) the term differently than I am poking at, but so many of these discussions hinge on whether we can have a single, objective, non-ambiguous use of words like 'knowlege' or 'reality'....or 'folk'...*grin*