Quotes for All
So long as knowledge goes beyond mere true belief, foreknowledge is implausible, since having and relying on relevant true beliefs is sufficient for inquiry. A stepping-stone version of prior true belief seems reasonable, though perhaps we should accept only an even weaker view: a stepping-stone version of roughly-accurate beliefs. Gail Fine
We certainly have to have a view about knowledge in order to decide whether some version of foreknowledge is necessary for inquiry or whether some philosopher or other thinks it is. Roughly, the more demanding our conception of knowledge is, the less plausible foreknowledge is; the weaker our conception of knowledge is, the more plausible … Read more
Even if we don’t have any knowledge in this life, we have and tend to rely on relevant true beliefs; and that’s sufficient for inquiry. Gail Fine
The Board of Inquiry report fails to recognize that the central problem in the Los Angeles Police Department is the culture. The reality is there will not be meaningful reform in the Los Angeles Police Department until the culture is changed. Erwin Chemerinsky
Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. Ernest L. Boyer
The way forward does not lie in amateur and comically timeless linguistic sociology which takes ‘forms of life ‘ for granted (and this is what philosophy has been recently), but in the systematic study of forms of life which does not take them for granted at all. It hardly matters whether such an inquiry is … Read more
In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different. Eric Newby
I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I’ve thought I could say something useful, I’ve tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more … Read more
There is more action in some other countries. In Germany, they’ve called for a very serious inquiry that’s discovering more and more. They’ve just discovered a significant violation of the German Constitution that had been concealed from the Parliament. Edward Snowden
The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America. Edward Snowden