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I show that the two most important conceptual advances in epistemology made by Karl Popper, namely, invalidation (1935) and evolutionary epistemology (1972), though apparently unrelated, fit very precisely together if one applies an improved generalized evolutionary paradigm in which the extinctions are included as chance “mutations” of the environment.
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Ne’eman, Y. (2004). Evolutionary Epistemology and Invalidation. In: Wasser, S.P. (eds) Evolutionary Theory and Processes: Modern Horizons. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0443-4_6
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