Conjectures and Refutations
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Conjectures and Refutations is a major philosophical work by Karl Popper that develops his theory of scientific knowledge through the ideas of falsifiability, critical testing, and the growth of knowledge via bold hypotheses and their refutation.
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book
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Adlerian psychology
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Marxism → historicism → psychoanalysis → |
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to clarify the logic of scientific discovery and progress
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| author |
Karl Popper
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Karl R. Popper → |
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no number of positive instances can conclusively verify a universal scientific theory
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scientific knowledge grows through bold conjectures and their refutations → scientific theories must be testable and falsifiable → |
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bold hypotheses
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conjectures → critical testing → falsifiability criterion → refutations → |
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United Kingdom
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epistemology
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philosophy → philosophy of science literature → |
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collection of essays
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“Science: Conjectures and Refutations” (essay)
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“The Demarcation Between Science and Metaphysics” (essay) → “The Problem of Induction” (essay) → “Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge” (essay) → “What Is Dialectic?” (essay) → |
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critical rationalist movement
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methodology of scientific research → philosophy of science in the 20th century → |
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Albert Einstein
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David Hume → logical positivism → |
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English
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| mainTopic |
critical rationalism
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demarcation problem → fallibilism → falsifiability → growth of scientific knowledge → hypothesis testing → philosophy of science → problem of induction → scientific method → |
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anti-inductivism
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critical rationalism → |
| publicationYear |
1963
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Routledge
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Routledge & Kegan Paul → |
| structure |
series of revised lectures and papers
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Karl Popper
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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Objective Knowledge
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Objective Knowledge
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