The Popperian Podcast #1 – David Deutsch – ‘Karl Popper and the Beginning of Infinity’
The Popperian Podcast
Is There a Truth in the World?
Am. Caurse: The notion of truth in pape's philosophy is different from that of post modernism, where basically knowledge was defined as just fied true beliefs. But this isn't what we call truth in everyday life - if somebody tells me the shops are going to shut because of lock down, then m that is i a statement that's capable of being true or false. When he says we are seeking the truth, he means we are seeking to co t errors but when we correct errors, there are always other errors left that we haven't noticed and also new errors introduced by our removing the old error. By that very fact, truth is a fundamental sort of regulating principle
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