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Les intellectuels, c'est bien connu, sont assez souvent enclins a la grandiloquence. Ils aiment les grandes phrases, les propositions definitives et par-dessus tout la critique. Leur legendaire sens du probleme parait meme leur interdire de decouvrir des solutions simples aux... Read Full Overview

A collection of essays that offers insight into the mind of one of the greatest living philosophers. Popper's subjects range from the beginnings of scientific speculation in Greece to the role of science in the arts.

'I want to begin by declaring that I regard scientific knowledge as the most important kind of knowledge we have', writes Sir Karl Popper in the opening essay of this book, which collects his meditations on the real improvements science has wrought in society, in politics and... Read Full Overview