Gail Fine famous quotes

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

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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 foreknowledge is.
-- Gail Fine

#Thinking #Views #Order

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

#Views #Long #Inquiry

The reason we can't attain the highest level of knowledge while incarnate is that we can't then wholly escape the influence of the body (and so of perception and of certain desires that take us away from thinking properly); and that prevents us from understanding fully what forms are, which one must do in order to have the highest level of knowledge.
-- Gail Fine

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If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong in the latter camp.
-- Gail Fine

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The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.

There is only God. REALITY is God and has never required your belief. This reality no "one" survives. In Ultimate Reality no "one" is saved either - there is simply nothing to save you "from" : you have not emerged from any "other" and there is no place else for "you" to disappear into. Ever.

I hope Limitless.. and its this Limitless hope that pushes me forward to live this Life..!!!

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.

Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.