Compare and contrast knowing a friend to knowing how to swim, knowing a scientific theory and knowing a historical period. What conclusions about the nature of knowledge can you reach?

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We can compare many things and people only by each quality. Contrasting them with their qualities will be at the same time easy and hard. Comparing a friend with something that is not alive, like knowing how to swim are two different things. A friend for example is a human being as everybody, who will help you anytime you want, give you support, understand and love you. According to Jane Sequichie Hifler, "In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil". We learn from our friends, and they learn from us. So it is "us" who teach each other, and let them know of the world we live in. Knowing how to swim, is something like giving knowledge to the person of how to swim, by showing it, basically, knowledge of swimming is floating on the water, not sinking, swim wherever you want and teach this person how to survive in any circumstance, in/on the water, and save people's lives.

For history and science, people perceive these two as a way of discovering something new from the past, creating or making something for the sake of human kind, prolonging human life. History tells us who are, where were born, when we were born, who is your father and mother, history is interesting to know. A scientific theory is stated by a person who choose this path to contribute his own work to people. If these two combine it can be obtained that another history can be born.

Who do we see in our daily life? We see a person who talks to you, tells jokes, supports you, and waits for you when you ask him/her. In my life I see friends, every day I talk to them, tell them...