From: "hmller" <hmller-AT-po-box.mcgill.ca>
Subject: RE: PKF: Introduction (Welcoming Rafe)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:06:53 -0500


I found your 1985 article on Popper (with some
difficulty) but I am not certain how this would
deal with Feyerabend's book.  I guess I should
wait until you have had time to formulate
something new on it.

Best wishes,
Herbert Muller

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> [mailto:owner-feyerabend-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu]On Behalf Of Rafe
> Champion
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> Subject: Re: PKF: Introduction (Welcoming Rafe)
>
>
> > We have a discussion on Feyerabend's "Conquest of Abundance" in the
> > Karl Jaspers Forum. Would you be interested to comment on the following
> > opinion ?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Herbert Muller
>
> I have picked up on the following comment:
>
> "The task which PF set for himself, in other words, was to
> study the relation of mental tools to experience - which we
> have to structure by means of such tools :  Experience is
> otherwise not structured and cannot be handled, but it also
> becomes restricted by them."
>
> One of the features of Karl Popper's work that appeals to me is his theory
> of objective knowledge, the mental tools that we use to structure and
> explore experience. Feyerabend wrote a highly critical review of
> this theory
> which I would like to answer sometime, but my own exposition of the power
> and fertility of Popper's theory can be found on my web site, in
> an article
> called "Popper's Theory of Objective Knowledge".
>
> The site is http://zap.to/rafechampion
>
> Something is not working in the system at present, so I cannot insert the
> link to the article.
>
> Rafe
>
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