Epistemological Quotes

17 quotes by 14 authors

Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain-there is nothing in the whole system if laws… — Arthur Eddington
As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social. — Jerome Ravetz
All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge. — Geoff Dyer
Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making… — Deborah Harkness
Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism. — Imre Lakatos
The non-commutativity of the underlying process produces an ontological complementarity. This must be contrasted to Bohr's epistemological complementarity. — Basil Hiley
We cannot fight against collectivism, unless we fight against its moral base: altruism. We cannot fight against altruism, unless we fight against its epistemological base:… — Ayn Rand
I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States… — Ayn Rand
A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary. — Lorrie Moore
A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y delimited sphere of… — Ayn Rand
It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other… — Ludwig von Mises
Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis… — Vladimir Lenin
Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically,… — Willard Van Orman Quine
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and… — Max Born
To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other… — Wilhelm Dilthey
It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were. — Avrum Stroll
It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demandwhole or categorical answers as it were. — Avrum Stroll

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