Author

Publication

1972 - Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

Language

English

Word Count

95,000 words, Guess

Page Count

380 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100198243707
  • ISBN-139780198243700
  • Library of Congress Control Number73153471
  • Open LibraryOL5451426M

Classifications

  • DDC121
  • LCCBD161 .P727

Description

The essays in this volume represent an approach to human knowledge that has had a profound influence on many recent thinkers. Popper breaks with a traditional commonsense theory of knowledge that can be traced back to Aristotle. A realist and fallibilist, he argues closely and in simple language that scientific knowledge, once stated in human language, is no longer part of ourselves but a separate entity that grows through critical selection.

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  • Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary ApproachClarendon Press1972-01-01
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