Abstract
In The Logic of Scientific Discovery Karl Popper rejected any epistemological role for experience, allowing it only the role of motivating, or causing, our beliefs. This invites the criticism that falsification is only relative, and ultimately unjustified. In his political and ethical philosophy he was more charitable to experience; our suffering is a reason for acting so as to minimise that suffering. It is argued here that his evolutionary epistemology also leads to a position that must afford experience an epistemological role. It need not be sentences all the way down.
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