Book review
Conjectures and Refutations
Popper argues that knowledge advances through conjectures and criticism rather than authoritative sources or accumulated confirmations. An intellectually engaging collection, with some repetition across the lectures.
My notes from Conjectures and Refutations by Karl Popper. I found it very interesting and was prompted by David Deutsch to read it. Some chapters, originally lectures, felt repetitive.
Selected passages from the book that I saved in my notes:
all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes
what, then, are the sources of our knowledge? The answer, I think, is this: there are all kinds of sources of our knowledge; but none has authority
Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments, but with the critical discussion of myths, and of magical techniques and practices