Discovery and its logic: Popper and the "friends of discovery"
Philosophy of the Social Sciences 25 (3):318-344 (1995)
| Abstract | This article compares the features of a logic of discovery for the "friends of discovery" and for Karl Popper. It argues that the account given by Popper is the same as that of the "friends of discovery." The comparison will unsystematically exhibit that Popper proposes such a logic and will submit that the epistemological significance of a logic of discovery is to be sought in a configuration of ideas and transactions deemed regulated by or mirroring rationality rather than in creative processes as such. | |||||||||
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