Citations:quagmire


 * 2001: Rupert Woodfin [text], Judy Groves [illustrations], and Richard Appignanesi [ed.], Introducing Aristotle, page 169 (Icon Books UK, Totem Books USA; ISBN 1840462337
 * 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.