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Does acquiring knowledge increase your power?
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Does acquiring knowledge increase your power?

Say Palpatine spends a month intensely studying a particular arcane Sith ritual. Does he grow more powerful as a result?


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If Knowledge = Power

Sure! smile


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To varying extents, yes. But only if it leads to a deeper connection to the Force. With more arcane and difficult powers and practices this tends to be how it works.


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If Snoke is anything to go by, yes.

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Say Palpatine spends a month intensely studying a particular arcane Sith ritual. Does he grow more powerful as a result?
Assuming his studying/training were successful, then yes.

It's one more power/ability in his toolbox that he didn't have before.


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To varying extents, yes. But only if it leads to a deeper connection to the Force. With more arcane and difficult powers and practices this tends to be how it works.


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Yes it does. This is factually confirmed by quotes. For example, in Palpatine's case, The Ultimate Visual Guide claims he studied the Force "to become more powerful." We also have Yoda's "knowledge of the Force" making him "just as powerful as Darth Sidious" according to Mysteries of the Jedi. The Banite Sith's "powers increased with each generation" "as they gained knowledge of the dark side of the Force" per The Phantom Menace Scrapbook.


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Nah. Otherwise you could say the same for the light side users. Nadd lived far more than Palpatine and had plenty of knowledge. But that doesn't make him more powerful than Exar Kun.


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Nadd, He didn't have more knowledge than Exar Kun, and knowledge isn't the only thing which makes one powerful in the Force.

To me it's like when you learn more about a sport or something. Yeah, you become a more effective user, but you don't actually become physically stronger or faster. That comes with a different type of practice, which is specifically made to enhance your muscles.
So while studying the Force can give the ability to use the Force more effectively, and as a side-effect give you more time using the Force, making you more powerful in it, it can't directly make you more powerful in the Force.


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Midichlorian count/connection to the force = IQ

Can be strengthened through meditation, mental exercises to an extent.

Force knowledge = general knowledge

Self-explanatory

Force power = (Force Knowledge) x (Force Aptitude)


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Nadd, He didn't have more knowledge than Exar Kun, and knowledge isn't the only thing which makes one powerful in the Force.

To me it's like when you learn more about a sport or something. Yeah, you become a more effective user, but you don't actually become physically stronger or faster. That comes with a different type of practice, which is specifically made to enhance your muscles.
So while studying the Force can give the ability to use the Force more effectively, and as a side-effect give you more time using the Force, making you more powerful in it, it can't directly make you more powerful in the Force.



Yes, he did. There is a source stating he had all the Jedi and Sith knowledge during his times.

But you are saying the same thing I said in a few words.


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I just read it back, and yeah, you're right. Sorry.


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If Snoke is anything to go by, yes.



Because Snoke had little real knowledge, explains his weakness thumb up

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