Douglas Clyde Macintosh Quote

The method of idealistic epistemology is like that of the quack physician; it first administers a drug which makes the patient's ailment chronic, thus making its own further services seem permanently indispensable.


The Problem of Knowledge, Chapter XIV (p. 334), The Macmillan Co. 1915


The method of idealistic epistemology is like that of the quack physician; it first administers a drug which makes the patient's ailment chronic,...

The method of idealistic epistemology is like that of the quack physician; it first administers a drug which makes the patient's ailment chronic,...

The method of idealistic epistemology is like that of the quack physician; it first administers a drug which makes the patient's ailment chronic,...

The method of idealistic epistemology is like that of the quack physician; it first administers a drug which makes the patient's ailment chronic,...