Knowing something is being aware of something that is a fact. Those aren't things you know, but rather things you have faith in. You can't know that you will inhale after you exhale, and you can't know that your heart will continue to beat through the night. No matter how minuscule the possibility, you can choke, your heart may fail (it happens)... But you have faith that you will continue in the way that has been proven reliable thus far, and that the unfortunate possibilities will not befall you.
In the same way, you can't know that there is a Mother, but you can have faith that there is.
Knowing something for yourself is having faith in something. It is a different know than knowing, for example, knowing that I am thirsty, or that I went to work this morning (barring Descartes).
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