Quotes About Epistemology

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

Así, cuando afirmamos que Dios existe nos formamos simplemente la idea de un ser tal como nos es presentado, y la existencia que le atribuimos no es concebida por una idea particular que unamos a la idea de sus otras cualidades y que pueda nuevamente ser separada y distinguida de ellas.

A common view of knowledge, going back to Plato, is that knowledge is justified, true belief. To know something, you have to think it's true (that's belief), you have to be right about it (that's truth), and you have to have good reasons for believing it (that's justification).

The epistomology-soaked orgy ought to come to an end! --Einstein

The only proof for the existence of God is that without God you couldn't prove anything.

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

There is One God. We have an epistemic center. There is meaning.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think." Gregory Bateson, Epistemologist

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

It is enough that I can understand one thing, clearly and distinctly, without another in order to be certain that one thing is distinct from the other.

If I find some reason for doubt in each of my beliefs, that will be enough to reject all of them.

The good, the true, and the beautiful are always their own best argument for themselves—by themselves—and in themselves.

The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.

Descartes himself, as one will recall, experienced great difficulty in overcoming his celebrated doubts, and was able to do so only by way of a tortuous argument which few today would find convincing. Is it not strange that tough-minded scientists should have so readily, and for so long, espoused a rationalist doctrine which calls in question the very possibility of empirical knowledge?

Simply put: Epistemic games recreate in game form the things that people do in the real world to learn to think in innovative and creative ways about problems that matter.

There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called critical philosophy and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term philosopher.

Suppose we concede that if I had been born of Muslim parents in Morocco rather than Christian parents in Michigan, my beliefs would be quite different. [But] the same goes for the pluralist...If the pluralist had been born in [Morocco] he probably wouldn't be a pluralist. Does it follow that...his pluralist beliefs are produced in him by an unreliable belief-producing process?

Faith is not to be contrasted with knowledge: faith (at least in paradigmatic instances) is knowledge, knowledge of a certain special kind.

The sensus divinitatis is a belief-producing faculty (or power, or mechanism) that under the right conditions produces belief that isn't evidentially based on other beliefs.