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Conjectures and Refutations

Also known as Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

A work by Karl Popper, first published in 1963

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  • What korrents draws from it

    There are no ultimate sources of knowledge: every source is welcome, and every source is open to criticism, The more we learn about the world, the clearer our knowledge of our own ignorance becomes, Confirmations are easy to find for nearly any theory if we look for them …

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  • Connections

    Karl Popper

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Key facts

First published
19632
Edition korrents quotes
Routledge Classics, 2002 edition3
Claims on korrents
171

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. There are no ultimate sources of knowledge: every source is welcome, and every source is open to criticism (opens korrents.com)1

  2. The more we learn about the world, the clearer our knowledge of our own ignorance becomes (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Confirmations are easy to find for nearly any theory if we look for them (opens korrents.com)1

  4. Confirmations should count only when they come from risky predictions (opens korrents.com)1

  5. The more a scientific theory forbids, the better it is (opens korrents.com)1

  6. Being irrefutable is not a virtue in a theory but a vice (opens korrents.com)1

Connections

Written by

  • Karl Popper

Sources

  1. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics, 2002 edition) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. Conjectures and Refutations, Q2909277 (Wikidata) (opens wikidata.org)
  3. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics, 2002 edition) (books.google.com) (opens books.google.com)

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