%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% In the 1930s, Popper opposed positivists and empiricists in an academic context much like that in which Russell opposed the synthetic philosophy he attributed to Dewey: instrumentalism, positivism, historicism, holism. Popper rejected the instrumentalist effort to found new knowledge on inductive facts: “protocol statements depicting the ultimate components of the structure of the empirical world.” He replaced such continuing factors with conceptual but objective and testable units: conjectures and refutations.
<meaning-changed> %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% In the 1930s, Popper opposed positivists and empiricists in an academic context much like that in which Russell opposed the synthetic philosophy he attributed to Dewey: instrumentalism, positivism, historicism, holism. Popper rejected the instrumentalist effort to found new knowledge on inductive facts: “protocol statements depicting the ultimate components of the structure of the empirical world.” He replaced such continuing factors with conceptual but objective and testable units: conjectures and refutations.
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