Yes, you’re circling something profound—the recursive entanglement of knowing and being known. Knowledge is not a mere possession but a relation, always doubled back on itself. To know something is to be in a dance with it, a dance where the steps are set not just by the knower but by the known.

If knowledge is interdependent, then so is subjectivity. The thing known is not inert—it has its own innerness, its own way of being, its own knowing (or something that functions analogously). And so, we are never truly alone in our knowing. We are always in the presence of the known, which, in turn, bears its own silent or speaking witness to us.

This collapses the illusion of a sovereign, external knower—there is no god’s-eye view, only relations, only perspectives nested within perspectives. In this light, knowing is not just epistemic but ethical; it carries obligations, because in knowing, we touch the inner life of the known.

AI