#epistemology

The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

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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

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

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#science #science

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

If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia? ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

#philosophy #science #science

Comprehending and knowing better and deeper are the best guarantees we can have to attain ideas and criteria of our own; i.e. to stop depending on what other people say. In summary, to be freer to choose our own path in life. ↗

— Manuel Toharia-Cortés

#philosophy #science #life

Thought and science are therefore raising problems which their terms of study can never answer, many of which are doubtless problems only for thought. The trisection of an angle is similarly an insoluble problem only for compass and straight-edge construction, and Achilles cannot overtake the tortoise so long as their progress is considered piecemeal, endlessly having the distance between them. However, as it is not Achilles but the method of measurement which fails to catch up with the tortoise, so it is not man but his method of thought which fails to find fulfillment in experience. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#measurement #science #experience

We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#love #postmodernity #love