Epistemology Quotes - Page 3

• Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.

  Ian Hacking

  Opinion, Medieval, Companion

  Ian Hacking (2006). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.55, Cambridge University Press

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• The quality of the human that precludes identifying the individual with the class is 'metaphysical' and has no place in empiricist epistemology. The pigeon hole into which a man is shoved circumscribes his fate.

  Max Horkheimer

  Fate, Men, Class

  "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 23), 1947.

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• An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. And that means, when it comes to deciding which approaches, methodologies, epistemologies, or ways or knowing are "correct," the answer can only be, "All of them."

  Ken Wilber

  Smart, Mean, Ideas

  Foreword to "Integral Medicine: A Noetic Reader", edited by Marilyn Schlitz and Tina Hyman, 2003.

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• In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished in epistemology.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Views, Intuition, Roles

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• One of the goals of scientific theorising is to develop concepts which are adequate to the phenomena under study. In my view, things should work the same way in epistemology. We want to know what knowledge actually amounts to, not what our folk concept of knowledge is, since, just as with our pretheoretical concept of acidity, it might contain all sorts of misunderstandings and leave out all manner of important things.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Views, Goal, Important

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• So I do, of course, reject much that is central not only to the psychology of Descartes and Kant, but to their epistemology as well. No doubt, the best available theories of today will look primitive in comparison with what we are in a position to understand hundreds of years from now.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Years, Psychology, Doubt

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• I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

  Isadore Singer

  Teacher, Teaching, School

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• I do think that an understanding of contemporary work in the cognitive sciences has a profound effect on how one views the workings of the mind. It doesn't work the way we pretheoretically think it does. Such an understanding, of course, should have a large effect on one's views in philosophy of mind, but also in epistemology.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophy, Thinking, Views

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• Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change. Matter is not important, only form interests them.

  Henri Poincare

  Teaching, Long, Important

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• When I first began studying philosophy, a good deal of what went on in analytic epistemology was focused on addressing the Gettier problem. At first, I became quite caught up in it, and the kind of analytical ingenuity required for the work appealed to me. After a while, however, I started to lose interest.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophy, Firsts, Study

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• We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

  Maria Montessori

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Part I, (p. 9), 1949.

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