critical rationalism definition
critical rationalism (Noun). The doctrine that scientific theories, and any other claims to knowledge, can and should be rationally criticized, and, if they have empirical content, can and should be subjected to tests which may falsify them.earby & related entries: 1  critical pedagogy. 2  critical period. 3  critical period (psychology). 4  critical point. 5  critical practice. 6  critical requirement. 7  critical review. 8  critical reynolds number. 9  critical section. 10  critical speed.
Put simply and starkly, critical rationalism is the view that absolutely all alleged knowledge is ultimately only fallible theory: mere guesses that we can test but which never become more probable by passing those tests.ritical rationalism denies that justification is possible, observes that most important scientific theories will not be true, and holds that belief is irrelevant. Thus the critical rationalist view of knowledge has been humorously explained as unjustified, untrue, unbelief.