SENSE-CERTAINTY: OR THE ‘THIS’ AND ‘MEANING’
90. “The knowledge or knowing which is at the start or is immediately our object cannot be anything else but immediate knowledge itself, a knowledge of the immediate or of what simply is…
Our approach to the object must also be immediate or receptive; we must alter nothing in the object as it presents itself. In apprehending it, we must refrain from trying to comprehend it.”
Knowing comes before Knowledge or after?
Knowing comes before knowledge and vice versa.
Here Hegel says, the moment you saw the object without your mind i.e. without your knowledge or knowing. And that moment something happens in you, a kind of experience without an explanation because there is nothing there in your mind. Your mind is absent i.e. there is no previous knowledge, i.e. the perception was not there and you stand as a blank slate experiencing the object without adding or comparing.
Knowing is immediate, it may be not very descriptive and also carry innocence but once knowing is confirmed it falls into Knowledge and stands as your perception.
Sometimes knowing comes after knowledge. When you use your knowledge day after days. You will come to know that the same knowledge is not true, but slowly it may lead to new experience called knowing i.e. fresh and innocent.