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English citations of naïve
- 2001: Rupert Woodfin [text], Judy Groves [illustrations], and Richard Appignanesi [ed.], Introducing Aristotle, page 169 (Icon Books UK, Totem Books USA; →ISBN
- René Descartes (1596–1650), a mathematician with interests in geometry, optics and physics, introduced a subjective element into epistemology: “How do we know for certain that we know?”
I think, therefore I am … Any other claim about the world is doubtful.
We can know only ourselves with certainty; everything else could be an illusion.
This plunged philosophy into a sceptical quagmire from which it has not yet emerged. Aristotle’s plain account of the world, without any profound account of how we apprehend it, came to seem pedestrian and naïve.
- René Descartes (1596–1650), a mathematician with interests in geometry, optics and physics, introduced a subjective element into epistemology: “How do we know for certain that we know?”
- 2002: Dan Verton, Confessions of Teenage Hackers, chapter 3, page 65
- Many involved naïve teenagers who had become caught up in the allure of the hacker underground.