In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology. — John Polkinghorne 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
“If one knows, one cares; if one does not care, one does not know.” — Esther Lightcap Meek 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
“First stage is knowing the truth, second is not knowing the truth, third is realizing the paradox.” — John K. Brown Copy Share Image
“Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessary condition for knowledge.” — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is… — Gregory Bateson 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
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
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
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
“and science, can be traced back as a direct result of this deficiency in human thinking. We can express this deficiency in… — Bō Jinn Copy Share Image
“the main problem of any epistemology is in fact to understand how the mind succeeds in constructing necessary relationships, which appear to… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
The great philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries did not think that epistemological questions floated free of questions about how the… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
One of the goals of scientific theorising is to develop concepts which are adequate to the phenomena under study. In my view,… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
What we're starting to see is a quantum biology, it being applied in biology and cosmology and a host of other sciences,… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. The… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Intuition must be taken seriously in the absence of substantial theoretical understanding, but once such theoretical understanding begins to take shape, prior… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“Up to now, most atheists have simply criticized religion in various ways, but the point is to dispel it. In A Manual… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“A similar experiment may be tried in metaphysics as regards the *intuition* of objects. If the intuition had to conform to the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Only after the concept of knowledge has been based on an ontological relation [*Seinsverhältnis*] can we work out the particular kind of… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of our mind; the first is to receive representations (receptivity of impressions), the second is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must… — Ayn Rand 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 obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way. — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT!” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“To demand the absolute and to be content with absolutely nothing else results in a skepticism.” — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
“English: "There is no truth, only the thoughts of survivors." Česky: „Neexistuje pravda, jen myšlenky přeživších.” — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology. — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
![“Only after the concept of knowledge has been based on an ontological relation [*Seinsverhältnis*] can we work out the particular kind of being from which the principle of immanence-to-consciousness (the starting point of Idealism and Critical Realism) mistakenly proceeds as though from a primary…” quote by Max Scheler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65c/max-scheler-21013_epistemology_only-after-the-concept-of-knowledge-has_492525.jpg)
