Can knowledge be known?

One of the passages in Lyotard that stood out to me was when he said "For it is impossible to know what the state of knowledge is." More than anything, this statement reminded me of a lot of the discussions we had in class throughout this semester. At one time or another, we discussed at length the real substance of knowledge and whether or not we can truly know something. I can safely say that before honors, this type of question would seem absolutely ridiculous to me, but now as I write paper after paper and blog after blog, this kind of question begins to hold a new kind of interest in my mind. This class has brought a whole new legitimacy to doubt in my mind. Like Heidegger would say, the thesis is only such in light of its own antithesis. In the case of Lyotard, this statement has huge implications for those of us who, being in college, are seeking knowledge every day. We cannot learn new things and then treat them as absolute, indisputable knowledge. Doing so would go against everything we have learned in honors. We must go on in our search of knowledge knowing that that very search is relative by nature and cannot be absolutely defined.

P.S. i commented on Lane's