Popper Contra Empiricism

C&F p. 23

"if we are doubtful about an assertion, then the normal procedure is to test it, rather than ask for its sources"

XIV

"there are all kinds of sources of our knowledge, but none has authority."

"the empericists questions 'How do you know? What is thr source of your assertion?'... are entirely misconceived: they are questions that beg for an authoritarian answer."

XV

"'Who should rule?' should be replaced with how can we organize our political institutions so that bad or incompetent rulers (whom we should try not to get, but whom we so easily might get all the same) cannot do much damage?"

"I propose to replace ... the question of the sources of our knowledge by an entirely different question: 'How can we hope to detect and eliminate error?'

This critical rationalism... "merely puts the finishing touch to Kant's own critical philosophy"

XVI

"The advance of knowledge consists, mainly, in the modification of earlier knowledge."

"Pessimistic and optimistic epistemlogies are about equally mistaken."

"...although, as Democritus said, the truth is hidden in the deep, we can probe into the deep."

"Clarity and distinctness are not criteria of truth, but such things as obscurity and confusion may indicate error."

Point 8!!!

"our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite."

"while differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal."

Some more equal than others...