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The idea of an evolutionary approach to epistemology was first proposed to explain the nature of irreducible concepts in human knowledge, called “a priori” (see K. Lorenz, 1941). The further development of evolutionary epistemology (EE) was characterized by the application of the evolutionary method to all the other problems of epistemology that appear to be unsolvable within an analytical framework, based on deduction alone (Brunswik, 1955, Campbell, 1959; Kaspar, 1980; Lorenz, 1973; Oeser, 1976; Popper, 1972; Riedl, 1980; Vollmer, 1975; and Wuketits, 1981). Thus the claim is attached to EE that this theory is able to circumvent some of the basic short-comings of traditional and analytical philosophy (Riedl, 1980, pp. 175–184).
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Wagner, G.P. (1984). Appendix The Logical Basis of Evolutionary Epistemology. In: Wuketits, F.M. (eds) Concepts and Approaches in Evolutionary Epistemology. Theory and Decision Library, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7127-1_11
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