The awareness or familiarity that is gained through experience. Example, people read a book with the certainty that the book in their hands exists. Using this knowledge, we are able to make subjective judgements about our beliefs and understandings. Example, the belief in God is a subjective judgement from knowledge/experience.

Conspiracy theories are part of how we facilitate our understanding of the world. We use knowledge to form beliefs. Beliefs are less clear predictors of the unknown.