Karl Popper, Objective Knowledge An Evolutionary Approach
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- Karl Popper, Objective Knowledge An Evolutionary Approach
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- 1910
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Karl Popper, Objective Knowledge An Evolutionary Approach
Author: Karl Popper
Year: 1910
Popper argues that scientific knowledge grows independently of a knowing subject through trial and error, mirroring biological evolution. The text introduces an objective epistemology via three distinct worlds and evolutionary problem-solving The Three Worlds FrameworkWorld 1: The physical world of objects, energy, and living organisms.World 2: The subjective world of human minds, psychological states, and conscious experiences.World 3: The autonomous, objective world of ideas, scientific theories, language, and cultural artifacts that once written down exist independently of their creators.Evolutionary EpistemologyProblem Solving: All organisms, from plants to humans, continuously solve objective survival problems.Trial and Error: Knowledge advances through a repeating schema of conjectures, attempted solutions, and error elimination (P₁ → TT → EE → P₂).Natural Selection of Ideas: Just as disadvantageous physical traits die out in nature, weak scientific theories are discarded through critical testing and falsification. 1972