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Oxford, Clarendon Press
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 simplelanguage 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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LibraryThing member ElizabethPisani
One of THE classics in the philosophy of science. I defy you to read this without agreeing vehemently. And disagreeing just as vehemently.
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English
Original publication date
1972
ISBN
0198243707 / 9780198243700
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Conoscenza oggettiva by Karl R. Popper (Paper Book)