"To attain knowledge, add things every day.
Through self-knowledge, the devout mystic strives to attain knowledge of God Himself.
This trend in turn produced a growing distrust of the power of human beings to attain knowledge of the ultimate basis of natural phenomena.
"The way you attain knowledge," Hester once observed, in what amounted to his credo, "is to go to college, get an education, start an argument, take either side, and then put your money in".
The success of Newton, in particular, in capturing in a few mathematical equations the laws that govern the motions of the planets, gave great impetus to a growing faith in the human capacity to attain knowledge.
The aim was to gather information regarding what students consider important for their motivation to attain knowledge, in order to shape courses that foster this motivation.
It is perfectly true that we can never attain knowledge of things as they are.
This is a strong indication that Locke thinks issues about language were of considerable importance in attaining knowledge.
He tried to achieve this by a systematic analysis of the mental phenomena involved in attaining knowledge and in drawing inferences.
After all, it will be contended, scientific method is the only reliable and indubitably successful and self-correcting method of attaining knowledge (pure mathematics perhaps excepted).
Unlike Descartes, who proposes an intellectualist path to attain knowledge of the internal cogito, Scudéry insists on the moral requirements for authentic disclosure of the self.
