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Objective Knowledge

Karl Popper

1984380 pagesabout 6–9 hours
1984
first published
  • 1972Clarendon Press · 380 pages · ENGISBN 9780198243700
  • 1973Clarendon Press · 380 pages · ENG
  • 1973Clarendon Press
  • 1979Clarendon Press · ENG
  • 1999Flammarion · 578 pagesISBN 9782080814050
  • 380 pages · ENG

The essays in this volume represent an approach to human knowledge that has had a profound influence on many recent thinkers. Popper breaks with a traditional commonsense theory of knowledge that can be traced back to Aristotle. A realist and fallibilist, he argues closely and in simple language that scientific knowledge, once stated in human language, is no longer part of ourselves but a separate entity that grows through critical selection.

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