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...
Explanation is where the mind rests.
(n.) The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge.
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...
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge.
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...
Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required. There must not be even a hint that learning is hierarchical, that it is an edifice constructed o...
Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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.
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...
difference, distance, absence and seperation lie 'at the heart' of meaning, being and reality
The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.
A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized
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.
Why should things be easy to understand?
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.
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