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Many languages distinguish between knowing with the mind and knowing with the senses.
For instance, French has savoir and conna tre , respectively. Thus, to know that our neighbor Mr. Brown lives at number 43 is different from knowing Mr. Brown. Compare, for instance, the verb admit and its noun, admission . Needless to say, German is not the only language which has relatives of witan . Eventually, in English, both kinds of knowledge became absorbed into know .