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Conjectures and Refutations : The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

By: Karl Popper

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Conjectures 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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'Popper holds that truth is not manifest, but extremely elusive, he believes that men need above all things, open-mindedness, imagination, and a constant willingness to be corrected.' -- Maurice Cranston, Listener

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Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xv
Preface to the Third Edition	p. xvii
Introduction: On the Sources of Knowledge and of Ignorance	p. 3
Conjectures
Science: Conjectures and Refutations	p. 43
Some Problems in the Philosophy of Science	p. 78
The Nature of Philosophical Problems and their Roots in Science	p. 87
Three Views Concerning Human Knowledge	p. 130
The Science of Galileo and Its Most Recent Betrayal	p. 130
The Issue at Stake	p. 134
The First View: Ultimate Explanation by Essences	p. 139
The Second View: Theories as Instruments	p. 144
Criticism of the Instrumentalist View	p. 149
The Third View: Conjectures, Truth, and Reality	p. 153
Towards a Rational Theory of Tradition	p. 161
Back to the Presocratics	p. 183
Historical Conjectures and Heraclitus on Change	p. 206
A Note on Berkeley as Precursor of Mach and Einstein	p. 224
Kant's Critique and Cosmology	p. 237
Kant and the Enlightenment	p. 238
Kant's Newtonian Cosmology	p. 240
The Critique and the Cosmological Problem	p. 241
Space and Time	p. 242
Kant's Copernican Revolution	p. 244
The Doctrine of Autonomy	p. 246
On the Status of Science and of Metaphysics	p. 249
Kant and the Logic of Experience	p. 249
The Problem of the Irrefutability of Philosophical Theories	p. 261
Why are the Calculi of Logic and Arithmetic Applicable to Reality?	p. 272
Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge	p. 291
The Growth of Knowledge: Theories and Problems	p. 291
The Theory of Objective Truth: Correspondence to the Facts	p. 302
Truth and Content: Verisimilitude versus Probability	p. 309
Background Knowledge and Scientific Growth	p. 322
Three Requirements for the Growth of Knowledge	p. 326
A Presumably False yet Formally Highly Probable Non-Empirical Statement	p. 336
Refutations
The Demarcation Between Science and Metaphysics	p. 341
Introduction	p. 342
My Own View of the Problem	p. 344
Carnap's First Theory of Meaninglessness	p. 349
Carnap and the Language of Science	p. 356
Testability and Meaning	p. 368
Probability and Induction	p. 377
Language and the Body-Mind Problem	p. 395
Introduction	p. 395
Four Major Functions of Language	p. 397
A Group of Theses	p. 398
The Machine Argument	p. 399
The Causal Theory of Naming	p. 401
Interaction	p. 402
Conclusion	p. 402
A Note on the Body-Mind Problem	p. 403
Self-Reference and Meaning in Ordinary Language	p. 409
What is Dialectic?	p. 419
Dialectic Explained	p. 419
Hegelian Dialectic	p. 435
Dialectic After Hegel	p. 445
Prediction and Prophecy in the Social Sciences	p. 452
Public Opinion and Liberal Principles	p. 467
The Myth of Public Opinion	p. 467
The Dangers of Public Opinion	p. 470
Liberal Principles: A Group of Theses	p. 471
The Liberal Theory of Free Discussion	p. 473
The Forms of Public Opinion	p. 475
Some Practical Problems: Censorship and Monopolies of Publicity	p. 475
A Short List of Political Illustrations	p. 476
Summary	p. 476
Utopia and Violence	p. 477
The History of Our Time: An Optimist's View	p. 489
Humanism and Reason	p. 506
Addenda: Some Technical Notes	p. 517
Empirical Content	p. 517
Probability and the Severity of Tests	p. 522
Verisimilitude	p. 527
Numerical Examples	p. 535
Artificial vs. Formalized Languages	p. 537
A Historical Note on Verisimilitude (1964)	p. 538
Some Further Hints on Verisimilitude (1968)	p. 541
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The Presocratics: Unity or Novelty? (1968)	p. 556
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Index of Names	p. 559
Index of Subjects	p. 567
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Conjectures and Refutations : The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

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