6328 | To know yet to think that one does not know is best [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
6323 | Pursuit of learning increases activity; the Way decreases it [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
16120 | Knowing how to achieve immortality is pointless without the knowledge how to use immortality [Plato] |
2133 | Knowledge must be of the permanent unchanging nature of things [Plato] |
2080 | Things are only knowable if a rational account (logos) is possible [Plato] |
547 | The ability to teach is a mark of true knowledge [Aristotle] |
12072 | For Aristotle knowledge is explanatory, involving understanding, and principles or causes [Aristotle, by Witt] |
12073 | 'Episteme' means grasping causes, universal judgments, explanation, and teaching [Aristotle, by Witt] |
12378 | The reason why is the key to knowledge [Aristotle] |
5991 | For Aristotle, knowledge is of causes, and is theoretical, practical or productive [Aristotle, by Code] |
7289 | Do not try to do things, or to master knowledge; just be empty [Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)] |
21397 | Perception an open hand, a fist is 'grasping', and holding that fist is knowledge [Zeno of Citium, by Long] |
20783 | Knowledge is a secure grasp of presentations which cannot be reversed by argument [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius] |
9089 | Knowledge is a quality existing subjectively in the soul [William of Ockham] |
9091 | Sometimes 'knowledge' just concerns the conclusion, sometimes the whole demonstration [William of Ockham] |
5640 | Spinoza's three levels of knowledge are perception/imagination, then principles, then intuitions [Spinoza, by Scruton] |
12544 | Our knowledge falls short of the extent of our own ideas [Locke] |
19424 | Knowledge needs clarity, distinctness, and adequacy, and it should be intuitive [Leibniz] |
19397 | Perfect knowledge implies complete explanations and perfect prediction [Leibniz] |
19757 | No one would bother to reason, and try to know things, without a desire for enjoyment [Rousseau] |
20944 | Knowledge is threefold: apprehension, reproduction by imagination, recognition by concepts [Kant, by Bowie] |
5617 | Knowledge begins with intuitions, moves to concepts, and ends with ideas [Kant] |
21957 | 'Transcendental' concerns how we know, rather than what we know [Kant] |
20126 | The strength of knowledge is not its truth, but its entrenchment in our culture [Nietzsche] |
4537 | We can't know whether there is knowledge if we don't know what it is [Nietzsche] |
22869 | Knowledge is either the product of competent enquiry, or it is meaningless [Dewey] |
16482 | All our knowledge (if verbal) is general, because all sentences contain general words [Russell] |
6430 | In epistemology we should emphasis the continuity between animal and human minds [Russell] |
5431 | Knowledge cannot be precisely defined, as it merges into 'probable opinion' [Russell] |
15037 | Why does knowledge appear in sudden bursts, and not in a smooth continuous development? [Foucault] |
8878 | It is acceptable to say a supermarket door 'knows' someone is approaching [Sosa] |
8888 | The concept of knowledge is so confused that it is best avoided [Bonjour] |
3897 | Epistemology is about the justification of belief, not the definition of knowledge [Scruton] |
6346 | The main epistemological theories are foundationalist, coherence, probabilistic and reliabilist [Pollock/Cruz] |
3756 | Perception, introspection, testimony, memory, reason, and inference can give us knowledge [Bernecker/Dretske] |
21627 | We have inexact knowledge when we include margins of error [Williamson] |
19566 | Epistemology does not just concern knowledge; all aspects of cognitive activity are involved [Kvanvig] |
19712 | Maybe there is plain 'animal' knowledge, and clearly justified 'reflective' knowledge [Vahid] |