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Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.
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There is truth and knowledge beyond understanding.
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Indeed, I hope to persuade you that the decline of a print-based epistemology and the accompanying rise of a television-based epistemology has had grave consequences for public life, that we are getting sillier by the minute.
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Bill Brent knew nothing about epistemology; but he knew that man must live by his own rational perception of reality, that he cannot act against it or escape it or find a substitute for it - and that there is no other way for him to live. He
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It is essential to consider as a constant point of reference in this essay the regular hiatus between what we fancy we know and what we really know, practical assent and simulated ignorance which allows us to live with ideas which, if we truly put them to the test, ought to upset our whole life.
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Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality.
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The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right.
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Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.
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Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
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I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century, that have sometimes troubled philosophers in the past. It's taken me several decades to work out my own philosophical agenda, and it is wide.
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introspection leads to true knowledge,
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Which one is right? Which one is wrong? When you feel you could answer that type of questions, you trapped on your own perception.
-Back cover, Andante Part 1, English modified-
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"
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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Perception meets you at the intersection of your beliefs and reality.
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[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.
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Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.
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The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
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When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.
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Existential claims have no weight; all knowledge is scientific knowledge. Yet the paradox is that scientific methodology is the product of human hands and thus cannot reach some permanent truth.
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With barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar
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As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.
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The bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, a datum in the strict sense of the word, something we simply come upon and find, and about which (if we wish to act) we should pause and wonder as little as possible. In this confession lies the lasting truth of empiricism.
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There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the conviction that ideas matter ... That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one's mind matters ...
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Seeking to know is too often learning to doubt
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Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.
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How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
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Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.
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Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.
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It is of great consequence to have previously determined the concept that one wants to elucidate through observation before questioning experience about it; for one finds in experience what one needs only if one knows in advance what to look for.
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The field of extrospection is based on two cardinal questions: "What do I know?" and "How do I know it?" In the field of introspection, the two guiding questions are: "What do I feel?" and "Why do I feel it?" Most
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How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?
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There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part, be the result of this Pyrrhonism, or excessive scepticism, when its undistinguished doubts are corrected by common sense and reflection.
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How do we know what we believe we know?
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Have the courage to use your own understanding! - that is the motto of enlightenment.
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The impudence of Ignorance
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Reality gets created through acts of observation
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Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion
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Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.
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True knowledge is not to be had solely through a combat against error, bad faith and untruth, but more generally, through a combat against the illusions inherent in the sensible world.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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What you believe is what you perceive.
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Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs. It is necessary that we examine them.
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Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.
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Self-discovery is a sacred knowledge
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If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.
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If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.
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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.
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A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind
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Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
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The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge.
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My work is largely concerned
with relations between
seeing and knowing,
seeing and saying,
seeing and believing.
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Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look.
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Rather than make use of the human capacity to know the truth, modern philosophy has preferred to accentuate the ways in which this capacity is limited and conditioned.
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There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a manifestation of deficient scholarship. This is the fortress behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge.
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F-A-I-T-H The Fundamental Authority of Irrefutable Truth that assures confident Hope
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Knowledge is justified belief.
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UNDERSTANDING
Everything is a game of beliefs; 'Understanding' is the whole thing.
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The fatal futility of Fact.
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You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we dont know everything. And since we dont know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.
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The kinds of claims I make about knowledge are thus meant to be illustrative of a general argumentative strategy which might well bear fruit in areas of philosophy which I have not thus far explored.
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Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
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In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.
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Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory, rather than the theory to the facts.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.
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Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some vital realizations. Periodically revising our philosophy of life as we live it is, therefore, a critically valuable exercise.
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Belief is the enemy of knowledge.
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Docility is the observable half of reason.
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If an opinion can eventually go to the determination of a practical belief, it, in so far, becomes itself a practical belief; and every proposition that is not pure metaphysical jargon and chatter must have some possible bearing upon practice.
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Knowledge is conventionally viewed as belief plus a bunch of credentials
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There's a truth that's deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception.
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What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we may remain mired in unexamined belief systems that are accepted as sacrosanct yet have no factual basis in reality.
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Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wasteland to the spirit.
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Belief creates the actual fact.
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The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason
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There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation,
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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There is a difference between knowing what is true and knowing why it is true
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Whoever has the power in society determines what can be studied, determines what can be observed, determines what can be thought.
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As a researcher, every once in a while you encounter something a little disconcerting. And this is something that changes your understanding of the world around you, and teaches you that you're very wrong about something that you really believed firmly in.
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To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.
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Authority, reason, experience; on these three, mixed in varying proportions all our knowledge depends.
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A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.
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Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.
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Whenever its name has been anything but a jest, philosophy has been haunted by a subterranean question: What if knowledge were a means to deepen unknowing?
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Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it
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A deep consideration of the essence of knowledge should reveal how knowledge corresponds to the truth.
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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
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Beliefs create reality
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To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth.We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not , know the Absolute Truth.