the liberalism of karl popper
... means of which theories might be verified, confirmed or probabilified, but by any error-elimination procedure in which hypotheses of ever increasing empirical content (or verisimilitude) are corroborated by withstanding ever more stringent tests. Unlike Hume, Popper draws no irrationalist conclusion ...
... means of which theories might be verified, confirmed or probabilified, but by any error-elimination procedure in which hypotheses of ever increasing empirical content (or verisimilitude) are corroborated by withstanding ever more stringent tests. Unlike Hume, Popper draws no irrationalist conclusion ...
Popper`s Double Standard of Scientificity in
... that relate the terms of the formal language with observables in the external world. If the terms relate to reality (i.e., this is it!), they are verified and scientific; if not, falsified and meaningless. However, verification broke down and attempts to save it by arguing that knowledge, though not ...
... that relate the terms of the formal language with observables in the external world. If the terms relate to reality (i.e., this is it!), they are verified and scientific; if not, falsified and meaningless. However, verification broke down and attempts to save it by arguing that knowledge, though not ...
Oct 15
... first two may well be “unfalsifiable” The problem with Marxism (which was falsifiable) was with its advocates, not the theory itself ...
... first two may well be “unfalsifiable” The problem with Marxism (which was falsifiable) was with its advocates, not the theory itself ...
Karl Popper
Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FBA FRS (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher and professor. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century.Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favour of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments. If the outcome of an experiment contradicts the theory, one should refrain from ad hoc manoeuvres that evade the contradiction merely by making it less falsifiable. Popper is also known for his opposition to the classical justificationist account of knowledge which he replaced with critical rationalism, ""the first non-justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy.""In political discourse, he is known for his vigorous defence of liberal democracy and the principles of social criticism that he came to believe made a flourishing ""open society"" possible. His political philosophy embraces ideas from all major democratic political ideologies and attempts to reconcile them: social democracy, classical liberalism, libertarianism, conservatism, and socialism.