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Karl Popper · 1959
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What this book knows
Science advances not by confirming theories but by subjecting them to relentless attempts at falsification, separating genuine empirical claims from metaphysics.
mind-and-cognition
Theories are nets cast to catch what we call 'the world': to rationalize, to explain, and to master it.
TLSD-RC-045The method of falsification presupposes no inductive inference, but only the tautological transformations of deductive logic whose validity is not in dispute.
TLSD-RC-026Theoretical science aims at obtaining theories which are easily falsifiable—restricting permitted events to as narrow a range as possible.
TLSD-RC-103faith-and-doubt
A subjective experience, or a feeling of conviction, can never justify a scientific statement, and within science it can play no part.
TLSD-RC-029If you insist on strict proof in the empirical sciences, you will never benefit from experience, and never learn from it how wrong you are.
TLSD-RC-037work-as-meaning
Science never pursues the illusory aim of making its answers final; its advance is towards an infinite yet attainable aim: ever discovering new, deeper, more general problems.
TLSD-RC-273Illuminates
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