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Karl Popper's mental models

3 claims Karl Popper made fit 1 mental model. Most often: Error correction. Everything they said here.

Models we see in what they say

Our reading: their claim applies the idea without naming it. The claim is theirs; filing it here is ours.

Error correction

Nobody and nothing is infallible, so judge a person, a text or an institution by whether it can notice its own mistakes and fix them, not by its claim to be right.

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There are no ultimate sources of knowledge: every source is welcome, and every source is open to criticism

  1. Karl Popper Austrian-British philosopher of science (1902 to 1994) There are no ultimate sources of knowledge. Every source, every suggestion, is welcome; and every source, every suggestion, is open to critical examination. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics, 2002 edition)books.google.com · c. 1963–1968All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsThere are no ultimate sources of knowledge. Every source, every suggestion, is welcome; and every source, every suggestion, is open to critical examination.

    ↗Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics, 2002 edition)books.google.com

    c. 1963–1968

Rationality is the critical attitude: freely discussing theories to find their weak spots so they can be improved

  1. Karl Popper Austrian-British philosopher of science (1902 to 1994) The critical attitude, the tradition of free discussion of theories with the aim of discovering their weak spots so that they may be improved upon, is the attitude of reasonableness, of rationality. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics, 2002 edition)books.google.com · c. 1963–1968All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsThe critical attitude, the tradition of free discussion of theories with the aim of discovering their weak spots so that they may be improved upon, is the attitude of reasonableness, of rationality.

    ↗Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics, 2002 edition)books.google.com

    c. 1963–1968

Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to refute it

  1. Karl Popper Austrian-British philosopher of science (1902 to 1994) Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it. Testability is falsifiability Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics, 2002 edition)books.google.com · c. 1963–1968All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsEvery genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it. Testability is falsifiability

    ↗Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics, 2002 edition)books.google.com

    c. 1963–1968