Sunday, September 25, 2011

a problem of knowledge

We live in a world full of contradiction and paradox, a fact of which perhaps the most
fundamental illustration is this:that the existence of a problem of knowledge depends on the future being different from the past, while the possibility of the solution of the problem depends on the future being like the past.-Knight

Monday, September 5, 2011

Inherited Capacity

From the standpoint of absolute ethics, most persons would probably agree that inherited capacity represents an obligation to the world rather than a claim upon it.-Frank Knight