We need freedom to prevent the state from abusing its power, and we need the state to prevent the abuse of freedom. Clearly this is…
Tag: Karl Popper
Reading Popper, I’m often surprised how many of Deutsch’s ideas are really ideas from Popper. Here is one on objective beauty. To me, idealism appears…
Popper did not believe we could explain the success of our attempt to explain things. He said: …no theory of knowledge should attempt to explain…
I came across the following quote where Popper describes theories that aren’t comparable, which seems to be the same concept of Kuhn’s “incommensurability.” In general…
Josh Levent, after listening to our podcast episodes on universal darwinism (part 1, part2), created the following diagram in an attempt to capture the basic…
Donald Campbell made the bold prediction that all expansions of knowledge will be found to require the Universal Darwinism algorithm of variation and selection. In…
In The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch claimed that no existing evolutionary algorithm has yet created knowledge. But Karl Popper and Donald Campbell beg to…
I came across this quote and thought people might enjoy it’s relationship to the recently much discussed “fun criteria.” Thus the pure theoretician… will choose…
In past posts, I’ve been building my argument around why Word Essentialism is always a rational mistake under Popperian epistemology. Popper himself explained this. I…
This is a historical post. In this post I was struggling to make sense of Popper. Agellius (a devout Catholic friend of mine) once asked…