Why is Taylor Series necessary for Runge Kutta methods?

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I know that the Runge Kutta methods are usually derived using Taylor Series expansion.

However, I don't understand why the Taylor Series is even necessary.

If we know $\frac{dy(t)}{dt}=f(t,y(t))$, then I think we should know any $f(t,y(t))$ at any point.

So, I wonder why we need to take the Taylor series like it does here:

Taylor series in deriving Runge Kutta