Quotes About Epistemology

We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.

Polanyi writes that there exists unspecifiable and unarticulated knowledge among scientists that is not susceptible to language and usually is dismissed in philosophy of science.

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.

Everyone who doubts knows that he is doubting, so that he is certain of this truth at least, namely the fact that he doubts. Thus every one who doubts whether there is such a thing as truth, knows at least one truth, so that his very capacity to doubt should convince him that there is such a thing as truth.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

El Posmodernismo es la estrategia epistemológica de la izquierda académica, para responder a la crisis provocada por los fracasos del socialismo en la teoría y en la práctica".

epistemological disaster

The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right.

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know; our knowledge of our ignorance. For this indeed, is the main source of our ignorance - the fact that our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

This false epistemology, however, has also led to disastrous consequences. The theory that truth is manifest—that it is there for everyone to see, if only he wants to see it—this theory is the basis of almost every kind of fanaticism. For only the most depraved wickedness can refuse to see the manifest truth; only those who have reason to fear truth conspire to suppress it.

there is no reason to believe that a definition necessarily determines the ontological status of the term defined.)

Science can be viewed from various standpoints, not only from that of epistemology; for example, we can look at it as a biological or as a sociological phenomenon. As such it might be described as a tool, or an instrument, comparable perhaps to some of our industrial machinery. Science may be described as a means of production - as the last word in 'roundabout production.

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance.

The Vienna Circle was empiricist and phenomenalist, Popper was a critical rationalist.

Önemli olan, eylemlerimizin önceden kestirilemeyen sonuçlar? hakk?nda ne kadar az bilgiye sahip olabilece?imizin bilincinde olmam?zd?r.

In the words of Heisenberg, "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Now he finds a way to embrace truth, not as a body of theoretical knowledge, but as a way of living: not an epistemology, but an ethics, of truth.

Far from regarding mankind as autonomous, Schaeffer believed that his books stressed "that people have no final answers in regard to truth, morals or epistemology without God's revelation in the Bible.

John Frame has noted that for Van Til, presuppositionalism did not denote apriorism, but the "pre- in presupposition refers to the 'pre-eminence' of the presupposition with respect to our other beliefs."45

Lyotard remarked that post-Modern artists often function as philosophers. They may deal with issues of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, as many influential critics today approach art through philosophy.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

all human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.