Epistemological philosophy advanced by Karl Popper
For the 1994 book by David Miller, see Critical Rationalism.
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Critical rationalism is an epistemological philosophy advanced by Karl Popper on the basis that, if a statement cannot be logically deduced (from what is known), it might nevertheless be possible to logically falsify it. Following Hume, Popper rejected any inductive logic that is ampliative, i.e., any logic that can provide more knowledge than deductive logic. This led Popper to his falsifiability criterion.
Popper wrote about critical rationalism in many works, including: The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934/1959),[1]The Open Society and its Enemies (1945),[2]Conjectures and Refutations (1963),[3]Unended Quest (1976),[4] and The Myth of the Framework (1994).[5]
^Popper, Karl (2002) [1959]. The Logic of Scientific Discovery (2nd English ed.). New York, NY: Routledge Classics. ISBN 0-415-27844-9. OCLC 59377149.
^Popper, K., The Open Society and Its Enemies, Princeton University Press, 2013, p.435.
^Popper, K., Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge, Routledge, 2014, p. 34.
^Popper, K., Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography, Routledge, 2005, p. 132.
^Popper, K., The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality, Routledge, 2014, p. xii.
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