“And perhaps I understood it all wrong, but I understood it and that was the novelty.” — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn. — Guido Molinari Copy Share Image
“If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Our individual consciousnesses were sieves of the divine. We could only know what our minds could encompass safely.” — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“A theologian’s epistemology controls his interpretation of the Bible. If his epistemology is not Christian, his exegesis will be systematically distorted. If… — Gordon H. Clark Copy Share Image
Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental… — Jesús Zamora-Bonilla Copy Share Image
“It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The quality of the human that precludes identifying the individual with the class is 'metaphysical' and has no place in empiricist epistemology.… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is always a legitimating idea, in the sense that assertions of knowledge always assert what is correct, what is proper, what… — Will Weaveright Copy Share Image
“A prepared mind is always made up; it knows what it thinks and why it thinks that. When it's time to change,… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
“the relevance of epistemology for the study of psychology and psychological development is that epistemological assumptions often remain tacit. Practically, this amounts… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“a Christian worldview is not reductionistic. It does not reduce reason to something less than reason, and therefore it does not self-destruct.… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
So I do, of course, reject much that is central not only to the psychology of Descartes and Kant, but to their… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“Following Vos, Van Til places epistemology where it truly belongs, within the eschatological status of history: either one is a member of… — William D. Dennison Copy Share Image
“Certainly, what Kant calls the transcendental reference, experience and object of experience are in a sense present in both opposed views of… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics, a completely isolated and speculative branch of rational knowledge which is raised above all teachings of experience and rests on concepts… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“There is nothing wrong with entertainment. As some psychiatrist once put it, we all build castles in the air. The problems come… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
“It is very important to note that the transcendence of the object is by no means a primitive component necessarily ingredient in… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“If we care about knowledge, freedom, and peace, then we need to stake a strong claim: anyone can believe anything, but liberal… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
“As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“It must be *possible* for the *I think* to accompany all my representations: for otherwise something would be represented within me that… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
“If one knows, one cares; if one does not care, one does not know.” — Esther Lightcap Meek Copy Share Image
“ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion” — Patricia Crone Copy Share Image
“Fragmenting and colliding both hegemonic and oppositional codes, my goal is to reinscribe validity as a way that uses the antifoundational problematic… — Patti Lather Copy Share Image
Bealer has a number of reasons for thinking that a naturalistic epistemology is self-undermining. Let me focus on one of these. (I've… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Comprehending and knowing better and deeper are the best guarantees we can have to attain ideas and criteria of our own; i.e.… — Manuel Toharia-Cortés Copy Share Image
“Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
