Objective Knowledge
Subtitle: An Evolutionary Approach
By: Karl R. Popper.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Oxford, Engand; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of; Induction (Logic)
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.