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Critical rationalism

Critical rationalism is Karl Popper's answer to what he considered the most important problems of epistemology and philosophy of science: the problems of the growth of knowledge, notably by induction, and the demarcation of science. He adopted a fallibilist approach to these problems, especially that of induction, without falling into skepticism. His…

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Fallibilism, not skepticism

The role of methodology

Marxism and politics

Psychoanalysis

Falsifiability, probability statement and metaphysics

Critical thinking, not support

Bayésianisme vs conjecture and refutation

Justified true belief versus objective knowledge

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Critical rationalism

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Critical rationalism → Archived, Bradley, Critical RationalismFieser, Discusses, Dowden, Internet Encyclopedia, ISSN, James, Karl Popper, OCLC, Philosophy, True Belief, Wayback MachineCritical Rationalism Blog
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Critical rationalism → Mario Bunge, Popper's, The Argentine-Canadian, William Warren Bartley
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Paul Tibbetts from criticizing Popper as if he had claimed that logicinstance offree from psychologism.This did not prevent authors0.80text
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