The Nature of Knowledge

Jean Piaget, Psychology and Epistemology: Towards a Theory of Knowledge (London: Penguin Books, 1972), 65.

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Clearly there is none which would unite all thinkers: the concept of knowledge as a whole is still (and perhaps always will be) a matter of provisional synthesis, a synthesis which is in part subjective because it is in fact dominated by value judgments which are not universally applicable but are specific to certain schools of thought or even to certain individuals. This is why all intelligent men educated as scientists, however enamored they may be of the philosophical ideal of knowledge as a cohesive whole, must eventually agree with Descartes that philosophical meditation should not exceed ‘one day a month’, the remainder of the time being more usefully set aside for experiment and calculation!

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