Epistemology Quotes
Epistemology Quote of the day
But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?
Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.
Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.
In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.
A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.
If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.
If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.
True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.
It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.
We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.
I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.
Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.
One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.
Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of the a priori.
The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.
In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished in epistemology.
He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.
But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.
The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things
The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.
The best ship, the best culture, the best knowledge, is the one which allows us to go farther, explore more territories or oceans of reality, and have the least damaging leaks possible.
To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.
Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is.
Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.
Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.
If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?
Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge.
Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and can be named.