Epistemology Quotes

29 quotes by 24 authors

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know? — Theodore Bikel
A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology. — H. L. Mencken
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
Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge and… — Neil Patrick Harris
I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview.… — Paul Ryan
What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including… — Jean Piaget
Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology. — Robert Anton Wilson
To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology. — Greg L. Bahnsen
The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change… — Hal Abelson
Paul Otrembaâ€™s remarkable first book,Â The Currency,Â is an intriguing foray into lyricÂ epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with the implacable, paradox-ridden… — Michael Collier
[...] intelligent people only have a certain amount of time (measured in subjective time spent thinking about religion) to become atheists. After a certain point,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted with… — Paul Feyerabend
In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning. — Jean Piaget
But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to… — Gregory Bateson
It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology. — John Polkinghorne
The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is… — Maria Montessori
There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the… — Plato
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change.… — Henri Poincare
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child… — Anne Sullivan Macy
An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to… — Ken Wilber

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