EPISODE · Jun 13, 2021 · 12 MIN
Episode 85 - Popper’s concept of what a problem is
from Rapid Idea Improvement · host Bart Vanderhaegen
According to Karl Popper: a problem is a conflict between ideas Think = solving problems = growing knowledge (knowledge containing less and less conflicts) Thinking is not : finding more arguments for your case, that is static. Knowledge doesn’t grow when you do that So Popper was after the growth of knowledge all the way Our knowledge is never final, never confirmed, and given our fallibility we can always improve and grow our knowledge Naive falsification: "throwing out knowledge when it is falsified" is the exact opposite ... so cannot have been the aim of Popper
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