An Introduction To The Thought Of Karl Popper
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 4, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415129572
First sentence: being by its nature - at least according to the so-called principle of verification, or verifiability - no more than 'idle chatter'. In Popper's view, this was a false conclusion, drawn from a principle which, precisely at the level of meaning, was incapable of safe-guarding the most important scientific propositions, the ones that express universal laws.