%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Logic of Karl Popper (1902-1994)In The Poverty of Historicism, published in 1957, Popper reported results of years spent criticizing perennial philosophical debate over whether reliable scientific knowledge arises from observation leading to theory, or from theory guiding observation. That essay was a critique of the kinds of synthetic philosophy to which Russell had linked Dewey—instrumentalism, pragmatism, historicism, holism—all of which claim that observation in situations precedes cognition, practice precedes theory.
<coherence> %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Logic of Karl Popper (1902-1994)In The Poverty of Historicism, published in 1957, Popper reported results of years spent criticizing perennial philosophical debate over whether reliable scientific knowledge arises from observation leading to theory, or from theory guiding observation. That essay was a critique of the kinds of synthetic philosophy to which Russell had linked Dewey—instrumentalism, pragmatism, historicism, holism—all of which claim that observation in situations precedes cognition, practice precedes theory.
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