"The central place of epistemology in modern philosophy is no accident... Knowledge was not a problem for the ruling philosophy of the Middle Ages; that the whole world which man's mind seeks to understand is intelligible to it was explicitly taken for granted. That people subsequently came to consider knowledge a problem implies that they had been led to accept certain different beliefs about the nature of man and about the things which he tries to understand."
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Edwin Arthur Burtt
Edwin Arthur Burtt (1892 – 6 September 1989) was an American philosopher, who wrote extensively on the philosophy of religion.
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