Can there be knowledge without investigation?

Can a thing be known at first on sight,
on taste or touch or feel, can you
smell a thing or, oddly, know it
only as an action at a spooky distance

It is unlikely a thing has ever
been discovered and declared,
post-haste, ‘this, then, is that’

With imagination, a consideration
of a thing is built upon the sense
of research best conducted, an exploration
of the nature before the naming

Postscript:
Descartes
bless his heart
neglected art