The Critical Rationalist

ISSN: 1393-3809

Volume 03    Number 01

17-Apr-1998

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Is Scientific Knowledge
an Inexhaustible Economic Resource?

David Miller
©1998

Abstract:

Some comments on R. S. Percival, `The Metaphysics of Scarcity: Popper's World 3 and the Theory of Finite Resources' (Percival 1996). Section 1 introduces and explains the central problem. Section 2 investigates in some detail the logical theorem presented by Percival in §45, on which much of his argument depends, and questions its significance and applicability. Section 3 offers an alternative explanation of the possibility of unlimited technological progress.

• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Some Points of Logic
• 3 The Application of Scientific Theories
• 4 Conclusion
• References
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