Replying to LO30849 --
What a magnificent collection of wisdom and clarity. Thank you, thank
you, thank you.
I will ponder these, perhaps forever.
- Hal
In a message dated 12/28/2003 5:58:54 PM Eastern Standard Time,
d.l.dwiggins@computer.org writes:
So, next try ' "death of knowledge" -waltari -management -whitehead ';
this cuts it down to 158. Several pages quote Karl Popper on
"Critical Rationalism":
I hold that orthodoxy is the death of knowledge, since the growth of
knowledge depends entirely on the existence of disagreement.
Admittedly, disagreement may lead to strife, and even to violence. And
this, I think, is very bad indeed, for I abhor violence. Yet
disagreement may also lead to discussion, to argument and to mutual
criticism. And these, I think, are of paramount importance, I suggest
that the greatest step towards a better and more peaceful world was
taken when the war of swords was first supported, and later sometimes
even replaced, by a war of words. This is why my topic is of some
practical significance. - Karl Popper, The Myth of the Framework
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