Our Knowledge of the Growth of Knowledge - 9781138778719

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Our Knowledge of the Growth of KnowledgePopper or Wittgenstein?\nAuthor(s): Peter Munz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138778719, 978-1138778719\nSynopsis\nPeter Munz, a former student of both Popper and Wittgenstein, begins his comparison of the two great twentieth-century philosophers, by explaining that since the demise of positivism there have emerged, broadly speaking, two philosophical options: Wittgenstein, with the absolute relativism of his theory that meaning is a function of language games and that social configurations are determinants of knowledge; and Poppers evolutionary epistemology conscious knowledge is a special case of the relationship which exists between all living beings and their environments. \n\nProfessor Munz examines and rejects the Wittgensteinian position. Instead, Our Knowledge of the Growth of Knowledge, first published in 1985, elaborates the potentially fruitful link between P.