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Karl Popper has quoted from Xenophanes two passages which reveal how closely this pre-Socratic philosopher had anticipated Popper’s views on the status of our attempts to understand nature— “a woven web of guesses.”
This chapter was originally written for a volume on the philosophy of Karl Popper, and was later withdrawn, another contribution being written in its place.
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Eccles, J.C. (1970). The Understanding of Nature. In: Facing Reality. Heidelberg Science Library. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3997-8_7
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