Achievement Quote by Hilary Kornblith

Animal knowledge is metaphysically constituted by apt belief, by belief whose correctness manifests the believer's epistemic competence, a relevant disposition to get it right…

— 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

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

“The advance of knowledge deludes us into thinking we are different from other animals, but our history shows that we are not.”

— John N. Gray

Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.

— Ludwik Fleck

“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

Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know.

— Irene Pepperberg

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

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The evolution of mind requires a diet of knowledge.”

— Susan Waterwyk

“However, current research in animal cognition, and on protolanguage, protomorality, ritual, and levels of consciousness, has shown that we may not be as unique…

— J. Wentzel van Huyssteen

We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough…

— E. O. Wilson