knower

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who knows something, especially the conscious subject in a theory of knowledge

   The theory treats knowledge as a relation between a knower and what is known.

Formed from know + the agent suffix -er. Although structurally transparent, knower has a specialized role in philosophy as the conscious subject that possesses or acquires knowledge.

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