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22587 | Understanding is the aim of our nature [Aristotle] |
Full Idea: Reason and understanding are our nature's end. | |
From: Aristotle (Politics [c.332 BCE], 1334b16) | |
A reaction: I take this to be purpose of philosophy, and we should distinguish understanding from the mere accumulation of knowledge. |
14768 | Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce] |
Full Idea: Infallibility in scientific matters seems to me irresistibly comical. | |
From: Charles Sanders Peirce (Concerning the Author [1897], p.3) |