Quotes About Epistemology

Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.

What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown

by saying that the former was only concerned with quality, the latter only with quantity, mistook cause for effect.

But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.

Human reason goes forth inexorably to such questions as cannot be answered by any experiential use of reason or principles based on it.

what things may be in themselves, I know not, and need not know because a thing is never presented to me otherwise than as a phenomena.

It is beyond doubt that all knowledge begins with experience.

How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.

I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith. ? Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

probability is a truth, known however through insufficient grounds, the knowledge of which is therefore deficient, but not deceptive [...]

Wir erkennen von den Dingen a priori nur das, was wir selbst in sie hineingelegt haben.

If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.

What things may be in themselves we do not know, nor need we care to know, because, after all, a thing can never come before me otherwise than as an appearance.

Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.

Epistemic arrogance bears a double effect: we overestimate what we know, and underestimate uncertainty, by compressing the range of possible uncertain states (i.e., by reducing the space of the unknown).

We do not spontaneously learn that we don't learn that we don't learn.

While I accept the notion of epistemic base, what I question is the role it has really played in the history of technology.

Recall that the Platonic fold is where our representation of reality ceases to apply—but we do not know it.

which condition preceded the other.

because television had become the primary means through which people appropriated the world, it promulgated an epistemology in which all information, whatever the source, was forced to become entertainment.

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Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.

The impossibility in the present day and age of combining Christianity and any public sense is underlined most strikingly in Zarathustra. The first person Zarathustra meets is a pious hermit. Zarathustra does not tell him that God is dead. The social message is clear; as with Socratism, implicit in Christianity and its liberal offshoots are elements that make society and the public weal impossible. Its epistemology endlessly destroys the horizons that make all culture and life possible.