CONJECTURES AND REFUTATIONS

The key points of Karl Pooper's book “Conjectures and Refutations”

The key points of Karl Pooper's book “Conjectures and Refutations”

Karl Pooper

Sir Karl taught Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics for 23 years as a Professor. In his book about Popper, Bryan Magee said that Philosophy (in Popper's opinion) is an essential activity, because we all of us to take a lot of things for granted, many of which assume that is a philosophy of nature, we take action, their private life, in political In our work, in every areas of life - but, although no doubt some of these assumptions, it is possible, more is false, some are harmful. Therefore, our critical review of the premise - it is a philosophical activity - is morally and intellectually important. (Magee, 2001, p. 221)

Popper was born in Vienna. Although his early embrace left-wing politics, he turned around in the thirties, found the time difference with their own philosophy, logical positivism. Popper's theory, however, is still unacceptable to set up, neither the Oxford, Cambridge or wanted him as a professor. Finally, Popper did find, was held at the London School of Economics. Popper was knighted in 1965. (Watkins, 1994, pp. 145-149) Popper in his philosophy, Hume provides a solution to the problem of induction. Popper's view that we know is that despite the general experience, but cannot confirm that they are, at least falsifiable "speculation, weaving." It is through this process, open its ears Einstein Newton physics. In his work, Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), he identified that someone should guide public policy "to minimize the avoidable suffering," This is in contrast to the utilitarian maxim. Although the Bellary map is given "the greatest philosopher of all time that “unparalleled wisdom" Popper assaults, in the book, Plato's political program. Plato's proposal is a "closed society, which is Totalitarianism. (Magee, 1974, p. 93.)

Conjecture and Refutation

Professor Popper's theory in his book “Conjecture and Refutation” has been expressed (Pooper, 1963, pp. 645-684) this way:

P1 --> TS --> EE --> P2

Where P1 is the initial problem, a solution of the TS trial, error elimination electronic engineering solutions and P2 is applied to the situation created by the trial, it is essentially a feedback process. Therefore, when one enters a new situation, he immediately take measures, it's a label attached to the above, we pigeon hole - the amount to get it, so to speak: almost everything in the first time, but later We evaluated, then we adjust our views based on our assessment, and then re-evaluate, and then change our views, and then re-evaluate, adjust, re-evaluation, etc., etc.; stop. For example: "When we enter a new situation and in life are a new man and we with our past prejudices and our previous experience. These biases, we require a new personal project. In fact, understand a main prediction is the removal of people; dispelled as we imagine him and replace them with what he is actually more like reality is ...