Read quote“Pero perseguir la verdad me parece una cosa bastante agotadora e inasible.”
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About Epistemology
The study of knowledge, belief, justification, and the limits of knowing.
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Words on Epistemology
Read quote“El verdadero filósofo sólo admite en las ciencias naturales aquello a que ni la razón ni la experiencia se atreven a contradecir.”
Read quote“The work of Faith is a nobler thing than the work of sight.”
Read quote“The principles of logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else.”
Read quote“I now know that it had not.”
Read quote“Many truths which I then found out from my analysis of patients, and which I accounted original, were in fact widely known findings as I discovered afterwards. This was both a pleasure and a disappointment to me.”
Read quote“Décoloniser la philosophie, c'est cesser de croire qu'il existe des lieux où la philosophie éclot.”
Read quote“I call African philosophy a set of texts: the set, precisely, of texts written by Africans and described by their authors themselves as ‘philosophical’.”
Read quote“For me the ultimate test for belief is do you have grounds for thinking that it’s true?”