from page 196 of Karl Popper’s 1969 paper “A Pluralist Approach to the Philosophy of History,” which is a chapter in the 1969 collection Roads to Freedom: Essays in Honour of Friedrich A. von Hayek (Erich Streissler, Gottfried Haberler, Friedrich A. Lutz, and Fritz Machlup, eds.) (original emphasis):
You cannot start from observation: you have to know first what to observe; that is, you have to start from a problem. Moreover, there is no such thing as an uninterpreted observation. All observations are interpreted in light of theories.
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
There is no such thing as an uninterpreted observation
From Don Boudreaux
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