Casting a critical eye on comic works throughout the ages, Meredith finds that the most skilled masters of the comic art―Aristophanes, Rabelais, Voltaire, Cervantes, Fielding, Molière―used comedy to grasp the essence of humanity. Comedy, according to Meredith's theory, serves an important moral and social function: it redeems us from our posturings, stripping away pride, arrogance, complac…
Buku ini terdiri atas enam bab. Bab I membahas biografi intelektual Karl R. Popper. Bab II pandangan Popper tentang epistemologi. Bab III pikiran pokok Popper dalam periode metodologis. Bab IV pikiran-pikiran pokok Popper dalam periode metafisis. Bab V epistemologi problem solving dalam tinjauan sistematis. Bab VI evaluasi, kelemahan epistemologi Popper, kemungkinan penerapan epistemologi Poppe…
Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the fundamental idea that guided his work: not only our knowledge, but our aims and our standards…