Is Knowledge or Truth Elusive?

In this brief essay, I begin with a definition of knowledge derived from Plato, namely that knowledge, which is to say, truth, can be considered as justified true belief. However, I problematize this, indicating certain limitations in human knowledge and the intrinsic distance between the subject that knows and the object of one’s knowledge, a gap that cannot be traversed even in heightened mystical states. This is alluded to by the Jewish thinker, Maimonides. The implication is that indeed human knowledge cannot know reality in an ultimate sense and can only be mediated or represented by the finite construction of human language systems.