--- title: "13 Way Quotes By Hilary Kornblith" description: "13 Way quotes by Hilary Kornblith. Plus more from Hilary Kornblith and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/813/hilary-kornblith-11063_different_but-there-is-no-doubt-that-my-own-views_903301.jpg" --- > [But there is no doubt that my own views on this are, in quite a number of ways, very different from those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/but-there-is-no-doubt-that-my-own-views-on-this-are-in-quite-a-number/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/813/hilary-kornblith-11063_different_but-there-is-no-doubt-that-my-own-views_903301.jpg) > [There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/there-is-a-worry-that-many-have-expressed-that-on-the-naturalistic/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/hilary-kornblith-11063_fear_there-is-a-worry-that-many-have-expresse_988903.jpg) > [No one would suggest that we can adequately investigate what makes something an acid, or what makes something aluminum, by bringing our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/no-one-would-suggest-that-we-can-adequately-investigate-what-makes/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2b/hilary-kornblith-11063_acid_no-one-would-suggest-that-we-can-adequat_2064658.jpg) > [In my view, philosophers have shown a great deal more respect for the first-person point of view than it deserves. There's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/in-my-view-philosophers-have-shown-a-great-deal-more-respect-for-the/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bab/hilary-kornblith-11063_believe_in-my-view-philosophers-have-shown-a-gre_3128974.jpg) > [I do think that an understanding of contemporary work in the cognitive sciences has a profound effect on how one views the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/i-do-think-that-an-understanding-of-contemporary-work-in-the/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc1/hilary-kornblith-11063_cognitive_i-do-think-that-an-understanding-of-cont_1300772.jpg) > [I am concerned about epistemic normativity, and I don't think that it is just a hangover from a priori and armchair approaches.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/i-am-concerned-about-epistemic-normativity-and-i-don-t-think-that-it/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88f/hilary-kornblith-11063_approach_i-am-concerned-about-epistemic-normativi_2212827.jpg) > [I don't know whether I can say that having a career in philosophy has turned out as I imagined, since in many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/i-don-t-know-whether-i-can-say-that-having-a-career-in-philosophy-has/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e7/hilary-kornblith-11063_career_i-don-t-know-whether-i-can-say-that-havi_1503689.jpg) > [It started becoming clear to me how one might have views about the nature of mind and of knowledge which are empirically…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/it-started-becoming-clear-to-me-how-one-might-have-views-about-the/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/699/hilary-kornblith-11063_activity_it-started-becoming-clear-to-me-how-one_2407707.jpg) > [Externalists reject any such view. I think that the idea that we can tell, simply by way of reflection, whether our beliefs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/externalists-reject-any-such-view-i-think-that-the-idea-that-we-can/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b0/hilary-kornblith-11063_agents_externalists-reject-any-such-view-i-thin_2295807.jpg) > [The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/the-experimentalists-think-that-we-can-only-get-at-our-concepts-by/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c5/hilary-kornblith-11063_armchairs_the-experimentalists-think-that-we-can-o_2649037.jpg) > [Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/work-on-causal-theories-of-knowledge-early-work-by-armstrong-and/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff4/hilary-kornblith-11063_armstrong_work-on-causal-theories-of-knowledge-ear_2625665.jpg) > [One of the goals of scientific theorising is to develop concepts which are adequate to the phenomena under study. In my view,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/one-of-the-goals-of-scientific-theorising-is-to-develop-concepts/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/044/hilary-kornblith-11063_adequate_one-of-the-goals-of-scientific-theorisin_2071130.jpg) > [No one worries terribly much about who the questions belong to, or whether a given contribution is really philosophy or, instead, properly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/no-one-worries-terribly-much-about-who-the-questions-belong-to-or/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb6/hilary-kornblith-11063_another-way_no-one-worries-terribly-much-about-who-t_2579546.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## More by Hilary Kornblith > [I think that when I first suggested the idea that knowledge should be viewed as a natural kind, many people thought this was just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/i-think-that-when-i-first-suggested-the-idea-that-knowledge-should-be/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not to say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/the-fact-that-these-scientific-theories-have-a-fine-track-record-of/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [I am quite wedded to the view that epistemologists should concern themselves with knowledge rather than our concept of knowledge. The analogy I like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/i-am-quite-wedded-to-the-view-that-epistemologists-should-concern/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [The role of empirical work in informing our philosophical theories, as I see it, is not that it gives us a better view of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/the-role-of-empirical-work-in-informing-our-philosophical-theories-as/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [Here, as in so many other cases, however, it turns out that a very commonsensical idea looks far less attractive when one examines some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/here-as-in-so-many-other-cases-however-it-turns-out-that-a-very/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [The kind of approach I take is different from much of experimental philosophy. Although the experimental philosophers and I are certainly in agreement about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/the-kind-of-approach-i-take-is-different-from-much-of-experimental/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [The fact that we have been able to develop a successful science, which issues in ever more accurate predictions and broader explanations, is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/the-fact-that-we-have-been-able-to-develop-a-successful-science-which/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/by-putting-the-first-person-point-of-view-in-a-naturalistic/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable. To my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/the-worry-that-unreflective-belief-acquisition-may-be-unreliable/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [When I got to college, I planned to be a math major, and, in addition to signing up for some math courses, I decided…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/when-i-got-to-college-i-planned-to-be-a-math-major-and-in-addition-to/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is undermined.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/when-reflection-is-thereby-demystified-i-believe-that-the-temptation/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which a belief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/internalist-approaches-to-epistemology-i-believe-have-a-great-deal-of/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [What we need to do, however, is figure out what our best available theories of the mind suggest about epistemological issues, while we recognise…](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/) > [I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More than this,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/i-largely-defer-to-the-cognitive-ethologists-i-believe-that-the/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave no differently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/rather-although-belief-may-be-adequate-for-explaining-the-behavior-of/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/hilary-kornblith/#itemlist", "name": "13 Way Quotes By Hilary Kornblith", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "But there is no doubt that my own views on this are, in quite a number of ways, very different from those of Quine.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/but-there-is-no-doubt-that-my-own-views-on-this-are-in-quite-a-number/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/813/hilary-kornblith-11063_different_but-there-is-no-doubt-that-my-own-views_903301.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/813/hilary-kornblith-11063_different_but-there-is-no-doubt-that-my-own-views_903301.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/813/hilary-kornblith-11063_different_but-there-is-no-doubt-that-my-own-views_903301.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“But there is no doubt that my own views on this are, in quite a number of ways, very different from those of…” — Hilary Kornblith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted by science. 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There's a lot of empirical work on the various psychological mechanisms by way of which the first-person point of view is produced, and, when we understand this, I believe, we can stop romanticising and mythologising the first-person perspective.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/in-my-view-philosophers-have-shown-a-great-deal-more-respect-for-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bab/hilary-kornblith-11063_believe_in-my-view-philosophers-have-shown-a-gre_3128974.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bab/hilary-kornblith-11063_believe_in-my-view-philosophers-have-shown-a-gre_3128974.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bab/hilary-kornblith-11063_believe_in-my-view-philosophers-have-shown-a-gre_3128974.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In my view, philosophers have shown a great deal more respect for the first-person point of view than it…” — Hilary Kornblith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I do think that an understanding of contemporary work in the cognitive sciences has a profound effect on how one views the workings of the mind. It doesn't work the way we pretheoretically think it does. 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Some ways of forming beliefs are better than others, and epistemologists of all stripes, I believe, have a legitimate interest in addressing the issue of what makes some of these ways better than others.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/i-am-concerned-about-epistemic-normativity-and-i-don-t-think-that-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88f/hilary-kornblith-11063_approach_i-am-concerned-about-epistemic-normativi_2212827.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88f/hilary-kornblith-11063_approach_i-am-concerned-about-epistemic-normativi_2212827.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88f/hilary-kornblith-11063_approach_i-am-concerned-about-epistemic-normativi_2212827.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I am concerned about epistemic normativity, and I don't think that it is just a hangover from a priori and…” — Hilary Kornblith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don't know whether I can say that having a career in philosophy has turned out as I imagined, since in many ways I had little idea of what such a life would be like. But philosophy is still tremendously exciting to me, and the opportunity to think, and talk, and write about these issues has been wonderful.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/i-don-t-know-whether-i-can-say-that-having-a-career-in-philosophy-has/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e7/hilary-kornblith-11063_career_i-don-t-know-whether-i-can-say-that-havi_1503689.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e7/hilary-kornblith-11063_career_i-don-t-know-whether-i-can-say-that-havi_1503689.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e7/hilary-kornblith-11063_career_i-don-t-know-whether-i-can-say-that-havi_1503689.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I don't know whether I can say that having a career in philosophy has turned out as I imagined, since in…” — Hilary Kornblith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It started becoming clear to me how one might have views about the nature of mind and of knowledge which are empirically informed. This way of thinking about philosophical theorizing makes sense of how philosophy might be a legitimate intellectual activity, in a way that a good deal of the armchair philosophy, I believe, cannot.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/it-started-becoming-clear-to-me-how-one-might-have-views-about-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/699/hilary-kornblith-11063_activity_it-started-becoming-clear-to-me-how-one_2407707.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/699/hilary-kornblith-11063_activity_it-started-becoming-clear-to-me-how-one_2407707.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/699/hilary-kornblith-11063_activity_it-started-becoming-clear-to-me-how-one_2407707.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It started becoming clear to me how one might have views about the nature of mind and of knowledge which are…” — Hilary Kornblith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Externalists reject any such view. I think that the idea that we can tell, simply by way of reflection, whether our beliefs are justified, is deeply commonsensical. More than that, the idea that responsible epistemic agents ought to reflect on their beliefs, and hold them only if they somehow pass muster, is utterly natural.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/externalists-reject-any-such-view-i-think-that-the-idea-that-we-can/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b0/hilary-kornblith-11063_agents_externalists-reject-any-such-view-i-thin_2295807.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b0/hilary-kornblith-11063_agents_externalists-reject-any-such-view-i-thin_2295807.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b0/hilary-kornblith-11063_agents_externalists-reject-any-such-view-i-thin_2295807.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Externalists reject any such view. I think that the idea that we can tell, simply by way of reflection…” — Hilary Kornblith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that we can skip the experiments and figure things out from our armchairs. What they have in common, however, is regarding our concepts as the targets of philosophical theorising, and I just don't think that, in the vast majority of cases, the subject matter of philosophy has our concepts as its target.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/the-experimentalists-think-that-we-can-only-get-at-our-concepts-by/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c5/hilary-kornblith-11063_armchairs_the-experimentalists-think-that-we-can-o_2649037.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c5/hilary-kornblith-11063_armchairs_the-experimentalists-think-that-we-can-o_2649037.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c5/hilary-kornblith-11063_armchairs_the-experimentalists-think-that-we-can-o_2649037.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the…” — Hilary Kornblith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I started to see the ways in which work in the cognitive sciences could inform our understanding of central epistemological issues, my whole idea of what the philosophical enterprise is all about began to change. Quine certainly played a role here, as did Putnam's (pre-1975) work in philosophy of science, and the exciting developments that went on in that time in philosophy of mind.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/work-on-causal-theories-of-knowledge-early-work-by-armstrong-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff4/hilary-kornblith-11063_armstrong_work-on-causal-theories-of-knowledge-ear_2625665.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff4/hilary-kornblith-11063_armstrong_work-on-causal-theories-of-knowledge-ear_2625665.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff4/hilary-kornblith-11063_armstrong_work-on-causal-theories-of-knowledge-ear_2625665.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more…” — Hilary Kornblith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "One of the goals of scientific theorising is to develop concepts which are adequate to the phenomena under study. In my view, things should work the same way in epistemology. We want to know what knowledge actually amounts to, not what our folk concept of knowledge is, since, just as with our pretheoretical concept of acidity, it might contain all sorts of misunderstandings and leave out all manner of important things.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/one-of-the-goals-of-scientific-theorising-is-to-develop-concepts/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/044/hilary-kornblith-11063_adequate_one-of-the-goals-of-scientific-theorisin_2071130.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/044/hilary-kornblith-11063_adequate_one-of-the-goals-of-scientific-theorisin_2071130.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/044/hilary-kornblith-11063_adequate_one-of-the-goals-of-scientific-theorisin_2071130.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“One of the goals of scientific theorising is to develop concepts which are adequate to the phenomena under…” — Hilary Kornblith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No one worries terribly much about who the questions belong to, or whether a given contribution is really philosophy or, instead, properly nothing but science. Perhaps another way to put this is that, although I think that knowledge is a natural kind, I don't think that philosophy is.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/no-one-worries-terribly-much-about-who-the-questions-belong-to-or/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb6/hilary-kornblith-11063_another-way_no-one-worries-terribly-much-about-who-t_2579546.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb6/hilary-kornblith-11063_another-way_no-one-worries-terribly-much-about-who-t_2579546.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb6/hilary-kornblith-11063_another-way_no-one-worries-terribly-much-about-who-t_2579546.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“No one worries terribly much about who the questions belong to, or whether a given contribution is really…” — Hilary Kornblith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/hilary-kornblith/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/hilary-kornblith/", "name": "Way Quotes by Hilary Kornblith", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/hilary-kornblith/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/813/hilary-kornblith-11063_different_but-there-is-no-doubt-that-my-own-views_903301.jpg" }, "description": "13 Way quotes by Hilary Kornblith. 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