forum for week of 14 Nov: when we don't want knowledge

Making an acquaintance with another person - while inquiring into another persons existence we develop ideas and beliefs about them through many different tools. Some may be accurate, while in other cases we make misjudgments. We can ask them questions and believe or not believe their answers, which may be true or may be false; and interpret their actions and body language and how they interact with others. Here we are searching for knowledge to know something about a person while simply creating our own idea of them, consisting of our own beliefs. Our beliefs may not be the same as a person has about themselves, or they may be in tune with how the person sees themselves - but even then is it a true belief? You may be wrong in your interpretation of them, or they may be wrong in the interpretation of themselves. I would argue that we are not searching for knowledge but ideas or feelings - trying to learn how to interpret, read or interact with another person. Because you, others and themselves can not be sure of your interpretations they cannot be true beleifs or knowledge, even though we are attempting to collect as accurate information as we can. On the other hand some straightforward information like physical appearance, occupation, and nationality we can mark as true beliefs and could thus be argued to be knowledge about the person if we had good reason to belief it (ie they tell us, we see them at work ect.)