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1. It is better to seek the import of the different theories of rationality for the life of reason than to seek the response to the skeptic critique of rationalism (as even Popper, Bartley and Watkins do).
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Agassi, J. (1995). The Theory and Practice of Critical Rationalism. In: Misiek, J. (eds) The Problem of Rationality in Science and its Philosophy. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 160. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0461-6_1
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