Epistemology Quotes · Page 5

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is…

— Gregory Bateson

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition…

— Anne Sullivan Macy

“... One can know very much but comprehend very little and, besides, ... different objectives require different levels of knowledge - though…

— Felix Alba-Juez

“If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?”

— Felix Alba-Juez

Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.

— Robert Anton Wilson

“Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT!”

— Felix Alba-Juez

“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

To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.

— Greg L. Bahnsen

[...] intelligent people only have a certain amount of time (measured in subjective time spent thinking about religion) to become atheists. After…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“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

“It is very important to note that the transcendence of the object is by no means a primitive component necessarily ingredient in…

— Max Scheler

The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence…

— Hal Abelson

Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such…

— Cass Sunstein

“The best ship, the best culture, the best knowledge, is the one which allows us to go farther, explore more territories or…

— Jesús Zamora-Bonilla

Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands,…

— Anonymous

“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

“…every feeling is the perception of a truth...”

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The data on which philosophical theorizing is based are rather the intuited contents themselves, concerning the various thought experiments. At least that…

— Ernest Sosa

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing…

— Jean Piaget

“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

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

— Jean Piaget

“The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself: and it…

— John Locke

“Fragmenting and colliding both hegemonic and oppositional codes, my goal is to reinscribe validity as a way that uses the antifoundational problematic…

— Patti Lather

“Intuition must be taken seriously in the absence of substantial theoretical understanding, but once such theoretical understanding begins to take shape, prior…

— Hilary Kornblith

I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical…

— Paul Ryan