Quotes About Epistemology

Nothing rose to plug the gap, to address what some called "ultimate concerns," unless you count the arts, the arts that lacked both epistemological methods and accountability, and that drew nutty people, or drove them nuts.

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

For Habermas, scientism means science's belief in itself: that is, 'the conviction that we can no longer understand science as one form of knowledge, but rather must identify knowledge with science'.

All around me the world lies like an immense hypothesis that I can no longer verify.

Epistemology models ontology.

It may be objected that the meaning of names can guide us at most only to the opinions, possibly the foolish and groundless opinions, which mankind have formed concerning things, and that as the object of philosophy is truth, not opinion, the philosopher should dismiss words and look into things themselves, to ascertain what questions can be asked and answered in regard to them.

Metaphysics—objective reality; Epistemology—reason; Ethics—self-interest; Politics—capitalism.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

To satisfy themselves with this, they gladly grasp at words, especially those which denote indefinite, very abstract, and unusual concepts difficult to explain, such, for example, as infinite and finite, sensuous and supersensuous, the Idea of being, Ideas of reason, the Absolute

the old doctrine of ignoramus et ignorabimus—"we do not know and will not know.

Ockham's razor is only a methodological principle, not a necessary truth

What Genesis is, in fact, is philosophy written in a deliberately non-philosophical way. It deals with all the central questions of philosophy: what exists (ontology), what can we know (epistemology), are we free (philosophical psychology), and how we should behave (ethics). But it does so in a way quite unlike the philosophical classics from Plato to Wittgenstein. To put it at its simplest: philosophy is truth as system. Genesis is truth as story.

one thing I know that is I know NOTHING

A theologian's epistemology controls his interpretation of the Bible. If his epistemology is not Christian, his exegesis will be systematically distorted. If he has no epistemology at all, his exegesis will be unsystematically distorted.

In science fiction, basic doubts featured prominently in the worlds of Philip K. Dick. I knew Phil for 25 years, and he was always getting onto me, a scientist. He was a great fan of quantum uncertainty, epistemology in science, the lot.

God is not simply other than our knowledge of Him. It is through God and God alone that we know God. Descartes elaborates this in this way: We know God because he left a mark of Himself in us; this mark is nothing other than our self-consciousness. Knowing God through this mark of His, we know God in every act of reason.

To consider Western science simply as a continuation of Islamic science is, therefore, to misunderstand completely both the epistemological foundations of the two sciences and the relationship that each has to the world of faith and revelation. It is also to misunderstand the metaphysical and philosophical backgrounds of the two sciences.

By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first time.

The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term

Dios es aquello que la mente humana no puede concebir, afirman, y luego os piden que consideréis tal cosa como conocimiento; Dios no es hombre, el cielo no es tierra, el alma no es el cuerpo, la virtud no es provecho, A no es A, la percepción no es sensorial, el conocimiento no es rázon. Sus definiciones no constituyen el acto de definir, sino el de borrar.

Bill Brent knew nothing about epistemology; but he knew that man must live by his own rational perception of reality, that he cannot act against it or escape it or find a substitute for it—and that there is no other way for him to live. He

Cuál es entonces su norma de conocimiento y de verdad? Lo que otros crean, responden. enseñan que no hay conocimiento, sino fe.