Objective Knowledge
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Objective Knowledge is a 1972 philosophical work by Karl Popper that develops his theory of knowledge as an objective, evolutionary process grounded in conjectures and refutations.
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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philosophical work ⓘ |
| arguesAgainst |
justificationism
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psychologism in epistemology ⓘ subjectivist theories of knowledge ⓘ |
| author | Karl Popper ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| developsTheory |
Conjectures and Refutations
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surface form:
conjectures and refutations
fallibilism ⓘ knowledge as an evolutionary process ⓘ non-justificationist epistemology ⓘ objective knowledge as World 3 objects ⓘ |
| genre |
epistemology
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philosophy of science ⓘ |
| hasCentralThesis |
knowledge can exist independently of any knowing subject as objective contents
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knowledge grows through an objective process of conjectures and refutations ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Epistemology Without a Knowing Subject
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Evolutionary Epistemology ⓘ Knowledge Without Authority ⓘ On the Sources of Knowledge and of Ignorance ⓘ On the Status of Science and of Metaphysics ⓘ On the Theory of Objective Mind ⓘ The Rationality of Scientific Revolutions ⓘ Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge ⓘ Two Faces of Common Sense ⓘ |
| influenced |
debates in philosophy of science
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later work on evolutionary epistemology ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Conjectures and Refutations
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
World 3
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Conjectures and Refutations ⓘ
surface form:
conjectures and refutations
epistemology ⓘ evolutionary epistemology ⓘ objective knowledge ⓘ scientific knowledge ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
epistemology without a knowing subject
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objective contents of thought ⓘ |
| philosophicalDiscipline |
metaphysics of mind
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theory of knowledge ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | critical rationalism ⓘ |
| proposesConcept |
World 1
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World 2 ⓘ World 3 ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| publisher | Oxford University Press ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Conjectures and Refutations
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery ⓘ The Open Society and Its Enemies ⓘ |
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subject surface form:
Karl Popper