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... results in much more complicated procedure in order to lift the subjective nature of the knowledge they have gathered and yield objective knowledge. My first address will be to the problem afflicted by scientists. This problem is well described Sir Karl Popper in his lecture at Emory University, "It happens very rarely that a man first forms a conviction on the basis of personal experience, publishes it, and gets it objectively accepted as one of the things we say 'It is known that...'."1 Instead the growth of scientific knowledge, the knowledge that scientists are primarily concerned with, follows a process of elimination. Scientific knowledge is another name for objective knowledge, however objective knowledge sounds less biased so I will use it instead. Sir Karl outlined this process in a tetradic schema illustrated below: P1 --> TT --> EE --> P2 In this process, P1 is the original problem, ...
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