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…
Tag: Karl Popper
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…
In my previous post, I talked about the difficulties libertarians have even just agreeing with each other over what constitutes an ‘initial use of force.’…
Thomas Szasz seems to be popular in certain Popperian circles, so I shouldn’t be surprised to find that they corresponded and Szasz saw his own…
In the Critical Rationalist group on Facebook there is an interesting discussion about Popper’s claims that faith in reason were not themselves rational. Here is…
The following letter was originally sent out to my mailing list and published here.
Does the phrase “I’m certain” or the question “How can we be certain?” suggest to you that the person talking needs a lesson in Popperian…
Another good Popper Quote I wanted to capture: …do we always have the feeling of complete assurance or certainty of its truth, even with respect…
In the past I wrote about how one of my most important disagreements with David Deutsch is on the subject of what counts as knowledge…