Sentences with phrase «knowledge as an amateur»

The other reason that I write this, is that it is possible to get significant knowledge as an amateur, and on a book basis, as good as many professionals.

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playing amateur sociologist of knowledge, I think some of this denial of the global comes from their general philosophical commitment to free markets, assumptions which tend to view only the individual as real, making larger institutions or «systems» metaphysical (an illusory abstraction).

I agree with most of what she says about the growth of scientific knowledge and, as far as I can tell as an amateur, her views are broadly consistent with current epistemology.