Companion Quote by Ian Hacking

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

— Ian Hacking

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and…

— Herbert Marcuse

There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in…

— Plato

“the main problem of any epistemology is in fact to understand how the mind succeeds in constructing necessary relationships, which appear to be independent…

— Ulrich Müller

“What is gained by the transcendence of the object is the identifiability of the object in a plurality of acts and the identifiability of…

— Max Scheler

“Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological…

— Neil Postman

Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of…

— Ernest Sosa

One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplicity of theories, metaphysical views,…

— Paul Feyerabend

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it…

— Maria Montessori

“Thought and science are therefore raising problems which their terms of study can never answer, many of which are doubtless problems only for thought.…

— Alan Wilson Watts

What we're starting to see is a quantum biology, it being applied in biology and cosmology and a host of other sciences, because it…

— Edgar Mitchell

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

— John Polkinghorne