Quotes About Epistemology

An idea, as Kant uses the term, is a representation of a "totality of conditions to a given conditioned thing," made possible by an unconditioned condition or absolute.

el origen primero de cualquier filosofía es la conciencia de una brecha, de una incertidumbre en nuestro conocimiento del mundo. La filosofía de Schopenhauer es en primer lugar un comentario acerca de las condiciones del conocimiento; una epistemología.

Mastery" is an inappropriate image for depicting epistemological success; knowledge is an exercise not of power but of virtue.

We cannot use a supposedly objective historical epistemology as the ultimate ground for the truth of Easter. To do so would be like someone who lit a candle to see whether the sun had risen.

Thus (a) understanding the world, (b) understanding reality, and (c) understanding myself all threaten to collapse into a morass, a smog of unknowing, of not even knowing what "knowing" itself might mean.

What I want to suggest, with great temerity, is that in the resurrection one is given the beginning of a new knowing, a new epistemology, a new coming-to-speech, the Word born afresh after the death of all human knowing and speech, all human hope and love, after the silent rest of the seventh-day sabbatical in the tomb. I

No cerne da condição humana, poderíamos dizer, há um pecado epistemológico – a recusa em reconhecer o que pode ser conhecido a respeito de Deus e, então, em responder ou reagir de forma adequada: "Tendo conhecimento de Deus, não o glorificaram como Deus, nem lhe deram graças" (Rm 1.21). Eles se envolveram em cegueira deliberada.

a Christian worldview is not reductionistic. It does not reduce reason to something less than reason, and therefore it does not self-destruct. A Christian epistemology (theory of knowledge) starts with the transcendent Creator, who spoke the entire universe into being with his Word: "And God said" (Gen. 1:3). "In the beginning was the Word" (John 1:1).

For the early scientists, the image of God was not a dry doctrine to which they gave merely cognitive assent. Nor was it a purely private "faith." They treated it as a public truth, the epistemological foundation for the entire scientific enterprise. Their goal, they said, was to think God's thoughts after him. 27 At the time of the scientific revolution, biblical epistemology was the guarantee that the human mind is equipped to gain genuine knowledge of the world.

Indeed, I hope to persuade you that the decline of a print-based epistemology and the accompanying rise of a television-based epistemology has had grave consequences for public life, that we are getting sillier by the minute.

It is my object in the rest of this book to make the epistemology of television visible again. I will try to demonstrate by concrete example that television's way of knowing is uncompromisingly hostile to typography's way of knowing; that television's conversations promote incoherence and triviality; that the phrase "serious television" is a contradiction in terms; and that television speaks in only one persistent voice—the voice of entertainment

They delude themselves who believe that television and print coexist, for coexistence implies parity. There is no parity here. Print is now merely a residual epistemology, and it will remain so, aided to some extent by the computer, and newspapers and magazines that are made to look like television screens.

Creo que la epistemología creada por la televisión no sólo es inferior a la epistemología basada en la imprenta, sino que es peligrosa y absurda.

To which we might add that every epistemology is the epistemology of a stage of media development. Truth, like time itself, is a product of a conversation man has with himself about and through the techniques of communication he has invented.

Science deceives us in three ways: by turning its propositions into norms, by disclosing its results rather than its methods, by ignoring its epistemological limitations.

Die These der Einheit der Wissenschaft ist kein epistemologische Erfordernis. Nicht einmal ein intellektuelles Programm. Sondern angstvolle Verkrampfung angesichts des Geheimnisses.

Epistemología que acople un idealismo ontológico a un realismo axiológico. El mundo es mi representación, menos los esplendores que lo rasgan.

Science deceives us in three ways: by turning its proposals into standards, by disclosing its results rather than its methods, by ignoring its epistemological limitations.

Social constructivist and postmodernist articles of faith-that no community of knowers enjoys a privileged epistemological position above any other-obviously stokes the confidence of multiculturalism's advocates when they insist that these "Otherly" perspectives be brought into today's science classroom, despite their poor fit with standard science.-';

Most ambitiously, some feminist epistemologists have argued that even our fundamental concepts of reason, evidence, and truth are covertly sexist. Feminist epistemology also goes beyond criticism to make suggestions about reform-how to make science better at finding out about the world (if that goal is to be retained), and also how to make science more socially responsible.

Truth cannot be verified by the scientific method. How could you prove that Truth is true? Truth cannot be verified by the scientific method...let alone Love, Reason, Spirit, or you.

Media are epistemologies. Every medium implies a particular way of thinking about things, influences to great extent what things we will think about, and how we will think about them.