Conjectures and Refutations

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Conjectures and Refutations is a major philosophical work by Karl Popper that develops his theory of scientific knowledge through the ideas of falsifiability, critical testing, and the growth of knowledge via bold hypotheses and their refutation.

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instanceOf book
non-fiction book
philosophical work
addresses Adlerian psychology
Marxism
historicism
psychoanalysis
aim to clarify the logic of scientific discovery and progress
author Karl Popper
Karl R. Popper
linked to: Karl Popper
centralClaim no number of positive instances can conclusively verify a universal scientific theory
scientific knowledge grows through bold conjectures and their refutations
scientific theories must be testable and falsifiable
centralConcept bold hypotheses
conjectures
critical testing
falsifiability criterion
refutations
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
genre epistemology
philosophy
philosophy of science literature
hasForm collection of essays
hasPart “Science: Conjectures and Refutations” (essay)
“The Demarcation Between Science and Metaphysics” (essay)
“The Problem of Induction” (essay)
“Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge” (essay)
“What Is Dialectic?” (essay)
influenced critical rationalist movement
methodology of scientific research
philosophy of science in the 20th century
influencedBy Albert Einstein
David Hume
logical positivism
language English
mainTopic critical rationalism
demarcation problem
fallibilism
falsifiability
growth of scientific knowledge
hypothesis testing
philosophy of science
problem of induction
scientific method
philosophicalStance anti-inductivism
critical rationalism
publicationYear 1963
publisher Routledge
Routledge & Kegan Paul
structure series of revised lectures and papers

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Karl Popper notableWork Conjectures and Refutations
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