I think, Joe, you have raised some very interesting and reflective comments in your two blogs on “Popper’s three worlds ontology.” Firstly, let me state, that I think it is inevitable that some reformulation of the three worlds ontology needs to be explored and will be explored by those that see the merit in […]
Interpreting Popper’s Three Worlds Ontology for Knowledge Management: A Guest Reply by Richard Vines
August 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Interpreting Popper’s Three Worlds Ontology for Knowledge Management: A Guest Reply by Richard Vines
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Interpreting Popper’s Three Worlds Ontology for Knowledge Management: Part Two
July 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Comparative Evaluation of the Two Theories Let’s compare the two theories of the three worlds, world-by-world, as it were. First, Popper’s W1 has the disadvantage that it blurs the distinction between the living and the non-living, since both are included in W1. This also has the effect of including knowledge in W1 without specifying a […]
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Interpreting Popper’s Three Worlds Ontology for Knowledge Management: Part One
July 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Popper’s Three Worlds Ontology In his Objective Knowledge (1972), Karl Popper introduced the idea of three ontological worlds or domains. The first world is the world of material objects, events, and processes, including the domain of biology. The second world is the world of mental events, processes, and predispositions– the world of beliefs and other […]
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