Every novel says to the reader: Things are not as simple as you think. That is the novel’s eternal truth, but it grows steadily harder to hear amid the din of easy, quick answers that come faster than...
Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge.
(n.) The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge.
Explanation is where the mind rests.
He was pinched perspinngly in the epistemological dilemma of the skeptic, unable to accept solutions to problems he was unwilling to dismiss as unsolvable. He was never without misery, and never witho...
difference, distance, absence and seperation lie 'at the heart' of meaning, being and reality
How does it happen that a properly endowed natural scientist comes to concern himself with epistemology? Is there no more valuable work in his specialty? I hear many of my colleagues saying, and I sen...
The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.
The principle chore of brains is to get the body parts where they should be in order that the organism may survive. Improvements in sensorimotor control confer an evolutionary advantage: a fancier sty...
Why should things be easy to understand?
Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
Although some of her passages seek to persuade the reader of the meaninglessness and marginalization of the mathematics, Hayles is content to use mathematics as a means for understanding Borges, perha...
Philosophy is about everything when I say everything I mean both something and nothing. Something is what we can perceive and nothing is beyond our senses.
Scientists study only those aspects of the universe that it is within their gift to study: what is observable; what is measurable and amenable to statistical analysis; and, indeed, what they can affor...
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
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