On 2010-02-14 Ulfilas, Washington, DC wrote: From the late 1960´s to the mid 1970´s I was a young person grappling with the question of what constituted truth. On the one hand, the conservative religious outlook of my rural upbringing was clearly ill-equipped to address the modern world. On the other hand, the Marxist views espoused by many of my peers were ridiculous. This book, however, and other books written by Karl Popper, cut though both of these views like so much paper. This book goes way beyond the high school notion of the scientific method. It exposes the intellectual poverty of approaches like astrology, Marxism, and Freudian Psychology, which offer an explanation for anything--but shrink from really putting themselves out there and daring to make a prediction whose failure will expose their shortcomings. Painful as it was at the time for me to realize that Christianity also fell into the same category as these other untestable conjectures, it showed me the way to a world view that respected no authority other than ideas that could be rigorously tested. . And summed up by saying A luminous beacon: Karl Popper´s non-authoritarian system of knowledge. Currently Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics) has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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