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> [“Ultimately there are only two important epistemological questions in philosophy: What is reality? What is man? And the answer can be collapsed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-mijuskovic/ultimately-there-are-only-two-important-epistemological-questions-in/)

[Ben Mijuskovic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-mijuskovic/)

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> [In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-sober/in-the-history-and-literature-courses-i-took-epistemological/)

[Elliott Sober](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-sober/)

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> [There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-e-boulding/there-are-of-course-a-number-of-epistemological-questions-some-of/)

[Kenneth E. Boulding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-e-boulding/)

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> [The great philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries did not think that epistemological questions floated free of questions about how the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/the-great-philosophers-of-the-17th-and-18th-centuries-did-not-think/)

[Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/)

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