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title: "17 Epistemological Quotes by 15 authors"
description: "Browse 17 Epistemological quotes by 15 authors. Discover the best Epistemological sayings and thoughts."
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> [It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demandwhole or categorical answers as it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avrum-stroll/it-is-characteristic-of-the-epistemological-tradition-to-present-us-2/)

[Avrum Stroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avrum-stroll/)

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> [All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-dyer/all-the-best-essays-are-epistemological-journeys-from-ignorance-or/)

[Geoff Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-dyer/)

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> [You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/you-can-t-invent-something-you-have-no-epistemological-access-to-in-a/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

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> [It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avrum-stroll/it-is-characteristic-of-the-epistemological-tradition-to-present-us/)

[Avrum Stroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avrum-stroll/)

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> [“My own existence as a teacher is one of sustained epistemological demolition”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-brookfield/my-own-existence-as-a-teacher-is-one-of-sustained-epistemological/)

[Stephen Brookfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-brookfield/)

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> [Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-smullyan/metaphysical-problems-about-mind-versus-matter-arise-only-from/)

[Raymond Smullyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-smullyan/)

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> [Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-lakatos/indeed-this-epistemological-theory-of-the-relation-between-theory-and/)

[Imre Lakatos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-lakatos/)

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> [What we need to do, however, is figure out what our best available theories of the mind suggest about epistemological issues, while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/what-we-need-to-do-however-is-figure-out-what-our-best-available/)

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

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> [Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-harkness/pamela-smith-and-benjamin-schmidt-have-gathered-together-a-wide/)

[Deborah Harkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-harkness/)

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> [“the relevance of epistemology for the study of psychology and psychological development is that epistemological assumptions often remain tacit. Practically, this amounts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulrich-m-ller/the-relevance-of-epistemology-for-the-study-of-psychology-and/)

[Ulrich Müller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulrich-m-ller/)

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> [To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-dilthey/to-attempt-this-would-be-like-seeing-without-eyes-or-directing-the/)

[Wilhelm Dilthey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-dilthey/)

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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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> [“The social sciences are obsessed by epistemological questioning in a way that no science, no real science is. You never have a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruno-latour/the-social-sciences-are-obsessed-by-epistemological-questioning-in-a/)

[Bruno Latour](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruno-latour/)

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> [“From an epistemological perspective, a person is a uniform being who interprets the different parts of her conscious knowledge in a coherent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulrich-m-ller/from-an-epistemological-perspective-a-person-is-a-uniform-being-who/)

[Ulrich Müller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulrich-m-ller/)

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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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> [“Epistemological insiderism” ... is the belief that identity qualifies or disqualifies one from writing with legitimacy and authority about a particular topic.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rogers-brubaker/epistemological-insiderism-is-the-belief-that-identity-qualifies-or/)

[Rogers Brubaker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rogers-brubaker/)

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