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Very Good in Very Good-dust jacket. 0875483666. 8vo 8"-9" tall; 258 pages; 1982 Open Court Publishing. HC/DJ Revised edition. Snugly bound and clean copy with unmarked text in original pictorial dust jacket. Prior owner's faint ink name stamp front edge of page block. Jacket a little sunned at spine with light shelf rubbing and a pair of short closed tears at edges. VG/VG-
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Clean & Unmarked in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x0; A clean and straight copy. Dust jacket is well sunned at spine and has a couple of tears with some creasing. 258 pp.
K R Popper is the greatest philosopher of science of all time and the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century. He solved the problem of induction [Every new swan I see is white therefore all swans are white was the paradigm case of invalid deduction of facts from instances - there are black swans].
This autobiography is a fascinating insight into the man and his thought. I recommend it to everyone.
Anthony Camacho
pica
Aug 2, 2007
Prophets in their time
Karl Popper is less known as a philosopher than he should be, and this is to his credit. He was a modest man.
Many have heard of him only through the tale that Wittgenstein threatened him with a poker during a "fight" that erupted while Popper was lecturing to a philosoph6y"club' W. had founded at Cambridge.
Popper deserves better. His "The Open Society and its Enemies" early identified that Fascism and Communism are the same wolves in very similar sheeps' clothing--that they both aim at establishing the Government as an all powerful tyranny and destroying individualism. All Popper's books are captivating and thought provoking.
As is his autobiography. It is a story of a lifetime of thought--there are no "intimate" revelations, such as pass as autobiography too often these days.
I bought this copy as a gift to a friend who is a PhD and was a philosophy prof--who somehow missed this one. Great read.
