Karl Popper Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

  Karl Popper

  Communication, Misunderstood, Way

  Karl Popper (2005). “Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography”, p.29, Routledge

• It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this is a mistake. All that is needed is a readiness to learn from one's partner in the discussion, which includes a genuine wish to understand what he intends to say. If this readiness is there, the discussion wrighteous stupidityill be the more fruitful the more the partner's backgrounds differ.

  Karl Popper

  Mistake, Learning, Knowledge

  Karl Popper (2012). “In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years”, p.158, Routledge

• It is clear that everybody interested in science must be interested in world 3 objects. A physical scientist, to start with, may be interested mainly in world 1 objects--say crystals and X-rays. But very soon he must realize how much depends on our interpretation of the facts, that is, on our theories, and so on world 3 objects. Similarly, a historian of science, or a philosopher interested in science must be largely a student of world 3 objects.

  Karl Popper

  Rays, World, May

  Karl Popper (2005). “Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography”, p.213, Routledge

• The fundamental thing about human languages is that they can and should be used to describe something; and this something is, somehow, the world. To be constantly and almost exclusively interested in the medium - in spectacle-cleaning - is a result of a philosophical mistake.

  Karl Popper

  Mistake, Philosophical, Fundamentals

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