Popperism
I think Karl Popper is right. We can never really know the truth. All we can know is what cannot be falsified today and tomorrow someone will falsify some of what we believe in today.
Oh come now. You cannot be serious. Consider the innumerable and indisputable truths you embrace at this instant without even thinking about them as you read this post, from the solidity of your chair, to the existence of the television in the next room, to the names of your parents, and so on. Only in the most narrow scientific sense is Popper right.
Oh come now. You cannot be serious. Consider the innumerable and indisputable truths you embrace at this instant without even thinking about them as you read this post, from the solidity of your chair, to the existence of the television in the next room, to the names of your parents, and so on. Only in the most narrow scientific sense is Popper right.
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