“When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics. — Ernest Sosa 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
“Pity the theory which sets itself in opposition to the mind! It cannot repair this contradiction by any humility, and the humbler… — Carl Von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
“...because television had become the primary means through which people appropriated the world, it promulgated an epistemology in which all information, whatever… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table. — Isadore Singer Copy Share Image
Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how… — Ken Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason… — John K. Brown Copy Share Image
“Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness,… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“... One can know very much but comprehend very little and, besides, ... different objectives require different levels of knowledge - though… — Felix Alba-Juez 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
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
“Logic is the science not of external forms of thought, but of the laws of development "of all material, natural and spiritual… — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Copy Share Image
The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
“Based on the short thesis presented, I believe the intellectual roots of modern atheism find themselves quite comfortably in an absolutely naturalized… — Bō Jinn Copy Share Image
Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Bealer argues that the kind of naturalistic view which Quine holds will rob him of the ability to make the normative claims… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“Second, when one tries to formulate a definition of knowledge or, more generally, when one investigates matters in epistemology, one does not… — J.P. Moreland 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Thought and science are therefore raising problems which their terms of study can never answer, many of which are doubtless problems only… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“It is true, no doubt, that this principle of the necessary unity of apperception is itself an identical and therefore an analytic… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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
“And perhaps I understood it all wrong, but I understood it and that was the novelty.” — Samuel Beckett 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
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