Animal Quote by Ernest Sosa

In my view (animal) knowledge is apt belief, where not only the belief (its existence and content) but also its correctness is creditable to…

— Ernest Sosa

Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave no differently…

— Hilary Kornblith

Talk of belief in these animals is not some kind of anthropomorphism. We simply cannot explain the kinds of problem solving and behavioral sophistication…

— Hilary Kornblith

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to…

— Steven Spielberg

What I argue is that talk of knowledge plays an important role in theories within cognitive ethology. The idea is this. First, one sees…

— Hilary Kornblith

The various processes of belief acquisition which are native to a species include ones which may allow for the reliable pick-up of information, which,…

— Hilary Kornblith

“Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have…

— Tom Regan

“If we want to understand the life of any animal, we need to know what things are meaningful to it. The first way to…

— Alexandra Horowitz

Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into…

— Iain McGilchrist

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

— Idries Shah

A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the…

— Suzy Kassem

Knowledge is justified belief.

— Jerome Bruner