Kindle Notes & Highlights
He was almost seventeen when he witnessed a bloody confrontation between police and communists, an event that helped to steer him towards democratic socialism, and eventually to what can be called social liberalism. Later experiences of the dogmas and violence of national socialism were also significant in formulating his political views.
induction, which is the inference of universal statements or propositions from a set of singular or particular statements such as the accounts of results of observations or experiments (Popper 1959, chapter I, section 1).
He also made suggestions about a non-inductivist psychology, which drew in part on studies, including his own, on issues in human and animal psychology (see Petersen’s discussion [ Chapter 3] in the present volume).
