Epistemology · Skopia

Quotes

7

Press conference

As we know, there are known knowns-there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns-that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

Donald Rumsfeld

2002

★ 6.8

Philosophical literature

Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished?... Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding · 1690

★ 4.5

Film · Crime (film) · Thriller (film) · Crime · Thriller

It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

Training Day · 2001

★ 4.0

Historical literature

In truth we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 3.9

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Books

6

Meditations on First Philosophy

1641★ 7.5

A Treatise of Human Nature

1740★ 7.4

The Enneads

270★ 7.3

Discourse on Method

1637★ 7.1

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

1748★ 6.7

Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues

George Berkeley

1710★ 6.3