#epistemology

Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

#philosophy #science #education

Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT! ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

#philosophy #physics #relativity #science #equality

Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#experience

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#faith

They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#intelligence

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

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#epistemology #philosophical #philosophical

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