#epistemology

They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#change

A prepared mind is always made up; it knows what it thinks and why it thinks that. When it's time to change, it just makes itself up a different way. A really made-up mind--made up properly, knowing what it knows and on what basis it knows it--is open. People close an undecided mind because they're trying to protect those sore uncertainties from getting bumped and scraped. ↗

— John Barnese

#open-minds #opinions #thought #change

Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers. ↗

— Kenneth A. Bruffee

#knowledge #education

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#logic

Scientist alone is true poet. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#poetry #science #science

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know? ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#epistemology #know #knowledge #study

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#affirm #beings #epistemology #into #linguistic

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#beginning #developmental #epistemology #genetic #never

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. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#explain #genetic #higher #how #judged

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

— John Polkinghorne

#epistemology #faithfulness #god #model