# Introduction to Critical Rationalism

**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/introduction-to-critical-rationalism/2024
**Category:** Elliot Temple
**Tags:** bot, cf-article
**Created:** [March 28, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/introduction-to-critical-rationalism/2024 "2025-03-28T15:56:05Z")
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### Author: ![ActiveMind](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/activemind/32/5560_2.png) [@ActiveMind](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/ActiveMind)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/introduction-to-critical-rationalism/2024/2 "2025-04-09T23:30:32Z")

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I’ll be doing the same type of analysis that I did with [Introduction to Critical Fallibilism - #2 by ActiveMind](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/introduction-to-critical-fallibilism/1920/2). I read the article the day it came out.

## Introduction

- _fallibilist_
  - knowledge is _tentative_
    - we can always improve our knowledge

  - _no guarantee_ against errors
    - perfection impossible
    - there can always be errors in our ideas

  - mistakes are common
  - we can make _progress_ despite _never reaching perfection_
    - this implies infinite room for improvement

- refutes _induction_ and _justificationism_
  - there have long been _known problems_
    - more effort has gone into trying to fix them to make original theories work instead of thinking of alternatives

  - _CR_ says they can’t work (logically, I think)
  - _CR’s_ alternative is _evolutionary epistemology_
    - we make progress and learn (improve knowledge) by _error correction_
      - brainstorming and criticism
      - conjectures and refutations
      - trial and error
      - critical discussion

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