Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific KnowledgeConjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the fundamental idea that guided his work: not only our knowledge, but our aims and our standards, grow through an unending process of trial and error. |
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Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge Karl Raimund Popper Limited preview - 2002 |
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