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Popper's Darwinian Analogy [PDF]
Popper famously held that the growth of scientific knowledge and the Darwinian mechanism of trial and error elimination are analogous processes. Both the validity of this analogy and Popper's interpretation of what this Darwinian mechanism consists in have been criticized.
Nanay, Bence
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We present a case of a 52-year-old man with sudden, bilateral central loss of vision as a result of inhalation of ‘poppers’. He was found to have characteristic changes on optical coherence tomography. With conservative treatment, the patient's vision improved marginally at 3 months follow-up. An overview of previous published cases is also included.
Joshua, Luis +2 more
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Information Distribution in Multi-Robot Systems: Utility-Based Evaluation Model
This work addresses the problem of information distribution in multi-robot systems, with an emphasis on multi-UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) applications.
Michał Barciś +2 more
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The Problem of Certainty in Religion and Science: Two Critically Rational Solutions to the Feynman Dilemma [PDF]
The influential physicist Richard Feynman became interested in the relationship between religion and science during a mid-career phase. He proposed that their interface was embroiled in unresolvable difficulties. He felt that science demanded an attitude
Shuja Zaidi
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Challenges in the Era of Modernity and Post-Modernity (Belief and Non-Belief to Science) [PDF]
When we discuss about differences between modernism and postmodernism, we believe the differences between science and non-science too. On one side we can talk about Karl Popper who believe in science and the other side consist of people such as and ...
mohammad abbaszadeh, elnaz panahi
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Karl Popper's Philosophical Breakthrough [PDF]
Despite his well-known deductivism, in his early (unpublished) writings, Popper held an inductivist position. Up to 1929 epistemology entered Popper's reflections only as far as the problem was that of the justification of the scientific character of ...
Gattei, Stefano
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Negative Reason and Anti-reason: Popper’s Critical Rationalism and Derrida’s Deconstruction [PDF]
Popper and Derrida are two influential philosophers of different schools of thought in the second half of the twentieth century. In terms of epistemology, Popper belongs to the critical rationalism school and Derrida to the deconstruction approach.
Mehdi khabbazi kenari
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Pragmatic Rationalism; Popper, Bartley and varieties of rationalism [PDF]
Rational discussion guides, but does not compel individual decisions, and the best process of inquiry and decision should vary with a person’s goals and situation.
William Berkson
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Morphologic Features of Extrahepatic Manifestations of Hepatitis C Virus Infection
Cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma are the prototypic complications of chronic hepatitis C virus infection in the liver. However, hepatitis C virus also affects a variety of other organs that may lead to significant morbidity and mortality ...
Huaibin M. Ko +6 more
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Popper’s Sociology of Science and Its Political Deficit [PDF]
The paper offers a distinctive reading of Popper’s work, suggesting that his Logic of Scientific Discovery (LScD) might be re-interpreted in the light of his Open Society. Indeed, Popper can be interpreted as criticising certain aspects of his first book,
Ian Jarvie+
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