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"One of the main tasks for human reason is to make the universe we live in understandable to ourselves. This is the task of science. There are two different components of about equal importance in this enterprise. The first is poetic inventiveness ..."
– Karl Popper
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Author Archives: Lee Kelly
Was Mises a Fallibilist?
I have been reading Human Action and decided to share some thoughts. Mises is troubling for a critical rationalist. Some of Mises’s proclamations seem adamantly anti-fallibilist, and appear to have been interpreted by many of his followers as such. Here … Continue reading
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Critical Rationalism in a Nutshell
This thought has been hovering around in my mind for a while. It seems to me the core of the critical rationalist mindset. We create our problems by choosing our ends, and we can dissolve them just by changing our … Continue reading
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The Source of Justificationism?
Yesterday I discovered an interesting paper. It is “Why do Humans Reason: Arguments for an Argumentative Theory” by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber. Here is the abstract: Reasoning is generally seen as a mean to improve knowledge and make better … Continue reading
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Two Solutions to the Problem of Induction
I have been thinking anew about the problem of induction recently, and wished to explain and contrast two proposed solutions. One of these solutions is Popper’s falsificationism; the other solution is what I believe has been implicitly accepted and taught … Continue reading
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Popper’s Indeterminism
I read Popper’s The Open Universe for the first time yesterday. What do you think of Popper’s arguments against determinism, especially the metaphysical variety? Although I appreciate Popper’s critique of “scientific” determinism, I confess to assuming that some kind of metaphysical determinism is … Continue reading
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