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Lewis and Popper on historicism

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Lewis and Popper on historicism

Postby postodave » November 10th, 2004, 2:29 pm

I was just wondering if anyone else had noticed the similarities between Lewis's criticism of historicism and the late Sir. Karl Popper's. Popper's is to be found in 'The Poverty of Historicism' and also in volume 2 of 'The Open Society and its Enemies'. Popper like Lewis was a critic of logical positivism, indeed he was known by them as 'the official opposition' He argues that scientific prediction of the future, as in Marxism is impossible because the future depends on things which have not yet been discovered; hence it is open, and society needas to be open, to allow it to unfold. Lewis focuses more on the mythical aspects of historicism, but it surely can't be a coincidence that they both use the word in the same way. Could Lewis have read Popper?
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Popper on history (and Christianity)

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Postby postodave » November 5th, 2008, 11:08 pm

So I drew my sword and got ready
But the lamb ran away with the crown
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Postby rusmeister » November 6th, 2008, 4:43 am

"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."
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Re: Lewis and Popper on historicism

Postby boink1 » March 29th, 2009, 9:27 pm

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Re: Lewis and Popper on historicism

Postby Menippus » April 13th, 2010, 4:50 am

The comments about the dating here are not quite right. While Popper's Poverty of Historicism was published as a book for the first time in 1957, the book collects together articles which were published in the journal Economica, in 1944 and 1945.
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Re: Lewis and Popper on historicism

Postby cyranorox » April 14th, 2010, 7:56 pm

Is that the Popper who waived a poker game with Wittegenstein? and derived the principle of not threatening opponents with andirony?
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Re: Lewis and Popper on historicism

Postby postodave » April 14th, 2010, 10:05 pm

Very witty.
Have you been reading Wittgenstein's Poker?
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Re: Lewis and Popper on historicism

Postby cyranorox » May 11th, 2010, 8:26 pm

No, dodging it.
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Re: Lewis and Popper on historicism

Postby postodave » May 11th, 2010, 9:23 pm

It's an interesting read. Two of the greatest twentieth century philosophers meet and get in a row over philosophy and then cannot agree over what happened when they met.
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Re: Lewis and Popper on historicism

Postby cyranorox » May 12th, 2010, 9:00 pm

dodging Wittgenstein's poker, not "Wittgenstein's Poker".
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Re: Lewis and Popper on historicism

Postby postodave » May 12th, 2010, 10:13 pm

So I drew my sword and got ready
But the lamb ran away with the crown
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