The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality is a 1994 book by the philosopher Karl Popper.[1]

The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality
Cover of the first edition, showing Karl Popper in 1988
AuthorKarl Popper
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPhilosophy of science
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date
1994
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages230
ISBN978-0415113205

The book is a collection of papers "prepared on different occasions as lectures for non-specialist audiences" (p. x).

The author formulates a premise for the book as: I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth (p. xii).

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  1. ^ Karl R. Popper (1994). The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality. Description Archived 2023-12-24 at the Wayback Machine & Contents. Archived 2023-12-24 at the Wayback Machine London and New York: Routledge.

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  • Karl R. Popper (1994). The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality. Description & Contents, including excerpt of chapter 1, "The Rationality of Scientific Revolutions." London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-13555-9
  • _____ (1987). "The Myth of the Framework," Rational Changes in Science: Essays on Scientific Reasoning, 98, pp. 35- 62. An earlier publication of ch. 2 above.
  • [Book review] (2011). "The Myth of the Framework: in defense [sic] of science and rationality, K.Popper Dec 18 - Dec 20, 2011," pp. 1-9 via http://www.chalmers.se/sv/institutioner/math/Sidor/default.aspx.
  • Alexander Bird (1996). "The Myth of the Framework, by Karl Popper; Knowledge and the Body: Mind Problem by Karl Popper," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 47(1), pp. 149-151.
  • Alan Forrester (2010). "The Myth of the Framework," critical rationalism blog, October 3.