Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950
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The Influence of Wittgenstein on Hayek
Hayek grew up in a family of scientists mostly natural scientists but he did have an early interest in psychology. He wrote a paper that was challenging some of Ernst Mox's views about sensations. This is something that later grew into his 1952 book The Sensory Order. Hayek had the same sort of valuation that Karl Popper had that if you're explaining everything with something that can't be tested then it's not really science.
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