A Name to Work With
By Dr. Daryoush Mohammad Poor | The Twin Wisdoms
Popper’s two ways of reading a definition, and why the names I give on these pages stay open to revision
I went back this week to the chapter of Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies in which he separates two kinds of definition, and I went back to it because of a habit of my own. Since March I have been giving names to things on these pages, and I have said more than once that a phenomenon has to be named before we can know how to deal with it. A careful reader (and I have a few, not all of them friendly) might fairly ask whether this…
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