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K. Popper’s Indeterminism and its Limitations

choi hyun cheol 1

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ABSTRACT

This paper purposes to examine critically on Popper's three arguments ― argument of uncountability, argument of self-unpredicatability, argument of time-asymmetry ― against scientific determinism. According to Popper, scientific determinism is the theory that stronger than metaphysical determinism, and the critique on scientific determinism implies the limits of determinism in general. With this argument, he establishes his indeterminism. However, in my view, his arguments are self-contradictory because of the cognitive limitation of observation propositions, and they cannot explain the successful cases of self-prediction. In addition, Popper's indeterminism has difficulty to incorporate the problem of human freedom and creativity.

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