Zhilin V.l. VOLUSIONARY EPISTEMOLOGY: K.P. POPPER AND I.P. MERKULOV – OPTIMISM AND PESSIMISM IN COGNITION
Zhilin Vladimir Il'ich
Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Director, Branch of Omsk State Pedagogical University, Tara
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Abstract. The article compares the values of the knowledge of evolutionary epistemology of hypothetical realism and evolutionary epistemology of critical realism. The author concludes that the hypothetical evolutionary epistemology realism reflects a pessimistic mood on the possibility of cognition, and evolutionary epistemology of critical realism depicts an optimistic one.
Key words: evolutionary epistemology, hypothetical realism, critical realism, skepticism, rationalism.
VOLUSIONARY EPISTEMOLOGY: K.P. POPPER AND I.P. MERKULOV – OPTIMISM AND PESSIMISM IN COGNITION by Zhilin V.l. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.