https://facebook/popperphilosopher?ref=profile POPPER’S RADICAL HUMANISM – CRITICAL RATIONALISM One of my main points: I dont think that our task is to justify – our task is to propose conjectures, and then to be very critical of our own theories. The best of these theories we may publish and then they may be criticized by others. We learn from this mutual criticism, from our mistakes, from seeing new possibilities. But we dont justify anything. It is a mistaken view to believe that either science or history exists for justification. We like to have all the evidence we can; but even the best evidence will not as a rule justify our more interesting theories. We can never build upon rock. This doesnt mean that we should believe, or accept, every theory. We should be critical, very critical; and the value of our work will be roughly proportional to the amount of criticism we have put into it before we published it.” Karl Popper, Historical Explanation, an interview, in “After the Open Society”.
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