Popper's ‘Rationality Principle’ and ‘Epistemic’ Rationality: an Attempt at Reconciliation

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 33 (4):195-209 (2020)
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‘Situational Analysis’ constitutes Popper's methodological proposal for the social sciences. There is an apparent inconsistency in the fact that, on the one hand, Popper maintains that we lear...

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Conjectures and Refutations.K. Popper - 1963 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 21 (3):431-434.
The poverty of historicism.Karl Raimund Popper - 1957 - London,: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

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