Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
I think of my visual work as an exploration of political epistemology: the politics of how we know what we think we… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
“But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.” — Immanuel Kant 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
Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics. — Ernest Sosa 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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental… — Jesús Zamora-Bonilla Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“Comprehending and knowing better and deeper are the best guarantees we can have to attain ideas and criteria of our own; i.e.… — Manuel Toharia-Cortés Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Bealer has a number of reasons for thinking that a naturalistic epistemology is self-undermining. Let me focus on one of these. (I've… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
“For the early scientists, the image of God was not a dry doctrine to which they gave merely cognitive assent. Nor was… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Dickens didn't have access to any other epistemologies other than those prevailing in Britain. But a novelist today cannot plausibly claim ignorance… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“What is necessary is that epistemology, instead of being the pre-condition for ontology, should grow in it and with it, being at… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
I believe, that empirically informed approaches to the question have issued in more illuminating answers than the old armchair approaches. But I… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
“Although some of her passages seek to persuade the reader of the meaninglessness and marginalization of the mathematics, Hayles is content to… — Bloch William Goldbloom Copy Share Image
“The...act of surrender—or devotion, as the case may be—was, to him, a kind of lifeline for those who sought a quick answer… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“If we care about knowledge, freedom, and peace, then we need to stake a strong claim: anyone can believe anything, but liberal… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
“It is very important to note that the transcendence of the object is by no means a primitive component necessarily ingredient in… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
“There is nothing wrong with entertainment. As some psychiatrist once put it, we all build castles in the air. The problems come… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics, a completely isolated and speculative branch of rational knowledge which is raised above all teachings of experience and rests on concepts… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Certainly, what Kant calls the transcendental reference, experience and object of experience are in a sense present in both opposed views of… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old procedure of metaphysics, and to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know? — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
“Metagapism is the belief that love is the ultimate reality, literally god and the one shared soul, and the source, nature and… — John K. Brown Copy Share Image
“All psychological philosophy of behavior of humans are subjective and coming in test in real time in the domain of epistemology.” — Hadas Moosazadeh, Author Copy Share Image
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way… — Max Born Copy Share Image
“Distortion and suppression of the truth is encouraged by a prevailing attitude of scientism, not science itself but rather a certain attitude… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
“Taylor and I both pride ourselves on having escaped that collapsed circus tent of epistemology—those acres of canvas under which many of… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
