Which is the best answer, would
you say? Click on its number.
What
produces new knowledge is, ultimately, the economic organization of a
society
The
way to predict the future is not by analysing the past but by studying human
psychology
New
knowledge sometimes influences the course of historical change
You
can't predict the future unless you know all there is to be known about the
past - and we can never know that
What was Popper's main point in his 'refutation' of historicism'?
I think his key point is (2)
(4) is Marxist in spirit (if a bit unclear?) and something Popper would want
to reject.
(3) Popper's claim is that the future cannot be predicted, not that some
means to prediction are misguided.
(1) Ditto, really. For him the future is intrinsically unpredictable.
