Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:14:21 -0800 (PST)
From: Dale Huckeby <daleh-AT-efn.org>
Subject: RE: PKF: On Liking Popper AND Feyerabend ...


On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Kenneth Allen Hopf wrote:

> Victor,
> 
> >Yes, but now he is wholly superseded, old stuff, history. We cannot say the
> >same about Feyerabend.
> 
> Popper is not only NOT superseded, but he has spawned a school of thought
> that is growing and becoming more influential, not less so.  Feyerabend
> is a good and interesting philosopher, but Popper is by far the greater
> of the two.

  Growing and becoming more influential?!  It's been my strong impression, 
buttressed by occasional debates on HOPOS, that _both_ have long since
been supplanted by Kuhn.  

Dale Huckeby



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