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#epistemology

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #epistemology




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


John Polkinghorne


#epistemology #faithfulness #god #model

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.


Paul Ryan


#ayn rand #epistemology #give #give me #going

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

To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.


Felix Alba-Juez


#philosophy #science #science

Scientists study only those aspects of the universe that it is within their gift to study: what is observable; what is measurable and amenable to statistical analysis; and, indeed, what they can afford to study within the means and time available. Science thus emerges as a giant tautology, a "closed system". It can present us with robust answers only because its practitioners take very great care to tailor the questions.


Colin Tudge


#science #science

It is the mythical, the romantic seduction of the pseudoknowledge, i.e. the folkore - both popular and scientific - that propagates quickly and easily through society, hiding and diminishing the powerful reality of what the new ideas and technologies can offer to humanity.


Manuel Toharia-Cortés


#philosophy #science #romantic

... One can know very much but comprehend very little and, besides, ... different objectives require different levels of knowledge - though always with the maximum possible comprehension suited to the purpose.


Felix Alba-Juez


#philosophy #science #science

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

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love


Leonard Cohen


#dance #epistemology #knowledge #love #poetry

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






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