"We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more

I think that most of us have seen that meme about Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance, which absolutely gets what Popper said wrong. When the meme gets it wrong, it stands to reason that most people sharing

Das Liberale Institut aus Zürich hat ein neues Paper veröffentlicht, geschrieben von Michael Esfeld (Professor für Wissenschaftsphilosophie an der Universität Lausanne, Wie nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg stehen

Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance wasn't simply an argument that you should be intolerant of intolerance. He actually made an antithetical augment that we actually do need to tolerate intolerance until

While the big Brexit kerfuffle was going on I was struck by the amount of motivated reasoning and sheer wishful thinking on both sides of the argument. The pandemic is now also throwing up a ton of both

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite #KarlPopper

#Truth and certainty must be sharply distinguished #KarlPopper

#Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification - the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit #KarlPopper

It is not the search for #certainty. To err is human. All human knowledge is fallible and therefore uncertain #KarlPopper

The method of #science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories #KarlPopper

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude #KarlPopper

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a #rational attitude #KarlPopper

There is no #knowledge without rational criticism, criticism in the service of the search for truth #KarlPopper

Acercándonos a una respuesta inducida por las teorías de Popper la mente humana biológicamente ha sido estudiada por diversas corrientes, ya sean conductista, funcionalistas entre otros, sin embargo, más

No #rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude #KarlPopper

Has anyone here read Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance? Here are his word, copied from wikipedia: Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.

By Nathaniel Popper May 31. 2018 SAN FRANCISCO — While scams proliferated in the unregulated world of virtual currencies over the last year, a company in Switzerland seemed to be among the more legitimate

Our #knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite #KarlPopper