Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

  • -- Avicenna 阿维森纳

现在在科学中已经确立了这样一种观点:如果有原因和开始,那么除了通过研究其原因和开始之外,就不可能获得任何知识;除非知道它的事故和伴随的要点,否则它不会完成。

相关名言

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

学术社会学家接受的训练是把他们的学科——社会学——看作是对社会的科学研究,并把对个人的研究交给心理学的姐妹学科。

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

认识论是对知识的研究。我们通过什么渠道知道我们所知道的?