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→Critical Rationalism
In "The Open Society and its Enemies" Popper declared his "faith" in reason (as characterised by criticism). A faith that led him to reject any other epistemological authority. His student, W. W. Bartley III went further ("The Retreat to Comittment") and rejected the need to have faith in reason. For Bartley ''all'' propositions where criticisable, even the propositions of basic logic themselves, a position he termed "Comprehensively Critical Rationalism".
In "The Open Society and its Enemies" Popper declared his "faith" in reason (as characterised by criticism). A faith that led him to reject any other epistemological authority. His student, W. W. Bartley III went further ("The Retreat to Comittment") and rejected the need to have faith in reason. For Bartley ''all'' propositions where criticisable, even the propositions of basic logic themselves, a position he termed "Comprehensively Critical Rationalism".
Another pupil of Popper's, David W. Miller rejects not only dogma, which can be characterised as support for propositions that should not be questioned but the very concept of "support".
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"there exist no grounds whatever, conclusive or inconclusive, for anything that we know"[http://intl.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/284/5420/1625]
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The view is criticised by those who hold that knowledge must have foundations, basic beliefs that are both true and justified, from which other propositions are derived.
The view is criticised by those who hold that knowledge must have foundations, basic beliefs that are both true and justified, from which other propositions are derived.