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The Uses of Karl Popper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Günter Wächtershäuser
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Karl Popper's work is of great diversity. It touches on virtually every intellectual activity. But he himself considered his philosophy of science one of his most important achievements. And indeed his achievement here is revolutionary. It destroyed the philosophy of inductivism which held sway over science for hundreds of years.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 39 , September 1995 , pp. 177 - 189
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1995

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