Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Sci…

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Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled. ✨ Albert Einstein (2010). The Ultimate Quotable Einstein, p.429, Princeton University Press
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