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A:The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was of course mythical. There are two views on the symbolism of its fruit:
  1. The person eating the fruit will understand the difference between good and evil, like a god.
  2. Since everything in the world is either good or evil (a rather simplistic view), the person eating the fruit will know everything there is to be known.
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