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Objective knowledge : an evolutionary approach /

Popper, Karl R. 1902-1994.

Objective knowledge : an evolutionary approach / Karl R. Popper. - Rev. ed. - Oxford [England] : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1979. - x, 395 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. Conjectural knowledge: My solution of the problem of induction -- 2. Two faces of common sense: An argument for commonsense realism and against the commonsense theory of knowledge -- 3. Epistemology without a knowing subject -- 4. On the theory of the objective mind -- 5. The aim of science -- 6. Of clouds and clocks -- 7. Evolution and the tree of knowledge -- 8. A realist view of logic, physics, and history -- 9. Philosophical comments on Tarski's theory of truth -- Appendix 1. The bucket and the searchlight: Two theories of knowledge -- Appendix 2. Summplementary remarks (1978).

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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Knowledge, Theory of.
Induction (Logic)
Methodology.
Science--Philosophy.
Liberty.
Determinism (Philosophy)
Knowledge of Result (Psychology)
Logic.
Connaissance, Théorie de la.
Induction (Logique)
Sens commun.
Sciences--Philosophie.
Liberté
Déterminisme (Philosophie)
Determinism (Philosophy)
Induction (Logic)
Knowledge, Theory of.
Liberty.
Methodology.
Science--Philosophy.
Objectiviteit.
Methodologie.
Kennistheorie.
Erkenntnistheorie
Obras Gerais.
Théorie de la connaissance.

BD161 / .P727 1979

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