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Epistemology Quotes

"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt"

"Cogito ergo sum "

"The wise man does not believe in absolute certainty"

"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."

"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality"

"We can know only that we know nothing And that is the highest degree of human wisdom"

"It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"

"The relation between power and knowledge is not one of exteriority"

"Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond."

"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud"

"3: There are no facts, only interpretations."

"Consciousness is an effect not a cause."

"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance"

"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence"

"All generalizations are false, including this one"

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