Acknowledgements
I wish to thank Dr Paolo Baracchi for his philosophically insightful linguistic revision of the text.
Notes
[1] Some authors who stressed Popper’s antifoundationalism are cited both in Gattei’s book and in the other works with which we are concerned here; to the list one should add at least Radnitzky (Citation1982a and Citation1982b), because, to my knowledge, he was the first to develop this interpretation systematically.
[2] Skolimowski (Citation1974), 495. I myself have argued at length for a distinction in three phases similar to Jarvie’s, not only regarding the development of Popper’s theory of knowledge (Buzzoni Citation1982 and Citation1987), but also regarding the development of his thought on the social sciences (Buzzoni Citation1980) and history (Buzzoni Citation1981). Today, after the publication of very important works on the early Popper (such as Berkson and Wettersten Citation1984; Wettersten Citation1985 and Citation1992; Hacohen Citation2000), I would of course add a precritical period.
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