Life is in context. We observe that a baby needs a mother. A plant needs nourishment and water from outside itself. Abstracted meaning needs physical experience as a basis. Structured language form needs language meaning to exist emically.
Nothing can survive outside of a patterned context.
Knowledge is related to memory. We may call to mind incidents with friends, comments seen on television about history, or folk tales which have been read. Knowledge of a larger context may tie the particular to the general, or the general to a mass of particulars. My emic philosophy is complex. It combines observer and thing, thought and act, moral intent and aesthetic judgment.