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		Ayer states that it is 'impossible to provide a rational justification for basic philosophical standards, principles, and procedures' or to give a proof 'that what we regard as rational procedure really is so; that our conception of what constitutes good evidence really is right.' Ayer's concession means he avoids claiming more than he logically can.
		Pancritical rationalism goes further in that it also abandons 'the demand that everything else except the standards be proved or justified by appealing to the authority of the standards, or by some other means.
		Crucial to grasping the essence of pancritical rationalism is the realisation that, in the past, the concept of criticism has always been fused with the concept of justification.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/2564/i1p4.htm (3914 words)

	Comments on Pancritical Rationalism
		PCR is a prescription for rationality that emerges from the work done in evolutionary epistemology based on the work of Karl Popper, William W. Bartley, and Donald Campbell.
		The pancritical rationalist is unable to do this without stepping outside of pancritical rationalism as a methodology – not merely in terms of content.
		Although critical rationalism was not itself justifiable, PCR is itself criticizable, and therefore meets its own critierion of rationality.
	mars.superlink.net /~neptune/PCR.html (1549 words)

	Pancritical Rationalism
		Pancritical Rationalism solves the problem by doing away with the need for induction, replacing it with the falsification of scientific laws in terms of observational statements.
		Ayer states that it is "impossible to provide a rational justification for basic philosophical standards, principles, and procedures" or to give a proof "that what we regard as rational procedure really is so; that our conception of what constitutes good evidence really is right."7 Ayer's concession means he avoids claiming more than he logically can.
		Crucial to grasping the essence of pancritical rationalism is the realization that, in the past, the concept of criticism has always been fused with the concept of justification.
	www.maxmore.com /pcr.htm (7246 words)

	Miller's Defence of Bartley's Pancritical Rationalism
		Rationalism without C2 would not aim to be comprehensive and it would be a very weak form of rationalism, so weak that according to C1 a non-justified (or an unjustifiable) absurd belief could still be rational.
		Notice that such a rational analysis already presupposes a favourable valuation of an argumentative or rational attitude, therefore a pondered moral decision about whether to be critically rational or not will itself presuppose a favourable valuation of an argumentative attitude.
		Then a moral decision in favour of critical rationalism would be circular, therefore, a moral judgement in favour of critical rationalism is in the end justificatory useless, but this is all as well, since the critical rationalist openly admits that she has to assume dogmatically her high valuation of argument.
	www.ifs.csic.es /sorites/Issue_15/cintora.htm (2472 words)

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		This new theory of rationality is not a theory of justified belief, it is a theory of critical preference between options.
		Threats to rationality are often depleted as psychological (pace Freud and Jung), or sociological (Marx) or due to relativity (Einstein) or uncertainty, indeterminism and incompleteness (Heisenberg, Godel).
		First, pancritical rationalism is not a position, it is a metacontext and as such it does not aim to have specific content.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /beardsley/700/bart.html (3539 words)

	The Philosophy and Economics of Liberalism. Article by Rafe Champion
		This type of rationality holds all its positions and propositions open to criticism and a standard objection to this stance is that it is empty; just holding our positions open to criticism provides no guidance as to what position we should adopt in any particular situation.
		First, pancritical rationalism is not a position, and so it is not directed at solving the kind of problems that are solved by adopting a position on some issue or other.
		The metacontext of pancritical rationalism is hospitable to liberalism, while in contrast the justificationist metacontext is potentially lethal for the tradition of free thought.
	www.the-rathouse.com /bartphiloflib.html (3185 words)

	Pan Critical Rationalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pan Critical Rationalism sponsors the growth of knowledge aided and abetted by relentless creative and imaginative criticism.
		The stance of Pan Critical Rationalism is not a position, it is a metacontext and as such it is not directed at solving the kind of problems that are solved by adopting a position on some issue or other.
		Of course this is no help for dogmatists who seek stronger reasons for belief, but that is a problem for them, not for exponents of Pan Critical Rationalism.
	clublet.com /why?PCR (344 words)

	Index to Papers
		I now turn to other criticisms of pancritical rationalism, and I will focus on the suggestion, made most prominently by John Post, that Bartley's pancritical rationalism leads to a "semantic paradox." This alleged paradox will be the subject of the remainder of this paper.
		For all x, if x is rational and x is a non-inferential statement, then there exists a y, such that y is a criticism of x and x has survived criticism.
		They should either accept pancritical rationalism, which leads to its own rejection, or they should believe that their belief in rationalism is completely without good reason of any kind: But in this case, their belief is utterly irrational.
	home.socal.rr.com /baxter/science.html (2747 words)

	W.W.Bartley. Articles by Rafe Champion
		The result of this investigation is a striking new general theory of rationality and the limits of criticism.
		This is a review of a posthumous book by Bartley containing a novel conception knowledge from an economic point of view, with startling insights into the scandal of Popper's reception by the profession of philosophers.
		This paper explores the capacity of Bartley's work on rationality to assist in the task of draining the swamp of unreason, to crack the dogmatic framework of western thought and promote imaginative criticism.
	www.the-rathouse.com /writingsonbartley.html (428 words)

	Transhumanist FAQ
		Many extropians conclude that such a concept of nature distinct from humanity and its technology cannot lead to a rational conservation ethic because, unless we advocate human genocide, it is hopelessly vague and confused.
		Pancritical rationalism and evolutionary epistemology agree in denying that our knowledge is grounded in justification.
		Although critical rationalism was not itself justifiable, PCR is itself criticizable, and therefore meets its own criterion of rationality.
	www.extropy.org /faq.htm (11438 words)

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		PANCRITICAL RATIONALISM: A nonjustificationist epistemology in which every statement is subject to criticism.
		See the entry for PCR in extropian FAQ for a good introduction, or Pancritical Rationalism: An Extropic Metacontext for Memetic Progress by Max More for a more detailled treatment.
		If the players will play the game only once, it is rational to defect, but if they will continue to play it several times (the iterated prisoner's dilemma) different strategies become possible.
	www.aleph.se /Trans/Words/p.html (796 words)

	Abstracts of the papers published in SORITES Issue 15
		Bartley argued that Popper's original theory of rationality (1945) opened itself to a tu quoque argument from the irrationalist and to avoid this Bartley proposed an alternative theory of rationality: pancritical rationalism (PCR).
		It is then argued that given the paradoxical nature of PCR, Popper's old justificationist critical rationalism with its minimum of dogmatism and irrationalism is malgré tout a better option.
		In a detailed examination of Quine's Two Dogmas of Empiricism, I argue that Quine fails to make the case that there are no analytical truths in ordinary language.
	www.sorites.org /Issue_15/abstract.htm (1174 words)

	Critical Rationalism
		While most philosophical traditions regard knowledge as something that has to be certain and justified, CR takes the view that we don't have ultimate answers, but knowledge is nevertheless possible.
		The modern founder of critical rationalism was Karl Popper.
		Three, critical rationalism, the truth is out there, but no one has a monopoly on it, so let's work together to try and get a little closer to it.
	www.geocities.com /criticalrationalist (1839 words)

	What is "Pancritical Rationalism"? - Objectivism Online Forum
		And this in effect is why you are taken so unseriously on the board: because you try to attack and refute the obvious by accepting it, as saying something contrary to the axioms is impossible without accepting them implicitly in the first place.
		As Stephen wisely pointed out, June is wasting her time with people like us since our intellects will never rise to the level required to understand phrases like "the memetics of dynamic fora." I have deleted her thread but collected some of the more interesting replies for keeping.
		You want to be treated as a rational person with differing ideas, rather than as a pathological mystic.
	forum.objectivismonline.net /index.php?showtopic=1436 (2863 words)

	Arkuat's Meme Workshop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A whole new school of thinking about knowledge is developing out of the confluence of meme idea on the one hand, and the pancritical epistemology of William Bartley and Sir Karl Popper.
		Note: PCR is also known as "comprehensively critical rationalism".
		Here are some comments, mostly about philosophy, that I made regarding some of Principia Cybernetica's web pages.
	www.idiom.com /~arkuat/meme/Memework.html (495 words)

	The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
		Students will be shown the advantages of pluralism, proliferation and pancritical rationalism.
		Disciplines: why what-is questions are best avoided; academic disciplines are useful for administrators but not researchers; essentialism and nominalism; theories and larger units (scientific research programmes, paradigms, research traditions); the computational-representational understanding of mind; the CRUM research programme; metaphysical research programmes.
		Belief-filter component: ultimate goal of AI; philosophical problem of testimony; rationalism (uncritical or comprehensive, pancritical); Reid's principle of credulity; Price's principle of trust; the strategy of attacking foundations and Searle's use of; how not to win an argument (Gilbert); infinite regress; ultimate commitment; irrationalism and relativism.
	www.cs.bham.ac.uk /resources/modules/2003/xml/02483.xml (628 words)

	Extropianism FAQ at MROB
		In fact, many of us see ourselves as part of a small minority of rational people in an aggressively irrational world, much of that irrationality related to religion, and so we're somewhat soured against the whole concept.
		Decentralized organizations like markets can actually exhibit more rational behavior than planned hierarchies because they consist of a greater number of intelligent agents with access to a greater aggregate of total information — much more information than a single central planner could ever account for.
		For further reading on this subject, see William Bartley's The Retreat to Commitment or the collection Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge, edited by Bartley and Gerard Radnitzky.
	home.earthlink.net /~mrob/pub/extro_faq.html (7868 words)

	Amazon.com: Belief Policies (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy): Books: Paul Helm,Ernest Sosa,Jonathan Dancy,John ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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		Rationality and religious belief (University of Notre Dame studies in the philosophy of religion ; no. 1) in Back Matter
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/052146028X?v=glance (710 words)

	Omniseek: /Arts & Humanities /Humanities /Philosophy /Rationalism /Philosophers
		This is the course home-page for Philosophy 23, Rationalism and Empiricism.
		Rationalism and Empiricism Peter Suber, Philosophy Department, Earlham College
		Descartes is regarded as "the father of modern philosophy." Using the method of total doubt to establish an indubitable foundation for "Truth" Descartes swept aside the metaphysics of previous philosophers.
	www.omniseek.com /srch/{84880} (239 words)

	catallaxy » Popper and Schumpeter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Feyerabend’s Humanitarian Critique of Popper’s Critical Rationalism by J-J Yuann
		Popper’s Conception of the Rationality Principle by Boudewijn de Bruin
		Popper and the Rationality Principle By Maurice Lagueux
	badanalysis.com /catallaxy/index.php?p=519 (684 words)

	virus: Re: Pancritical Rationalism (was Re: virus: Incredulity)
		I think I might have been a pancritical rationalist for a while without
		be supported rationally, we should (try to) suspend judgment about
		I am a pancritical rationalist until such times as
	www.churchofvirus.org /virus.97/2043.html (1542 words)

	Samizdata.net - Is "open source" software a libertarian idea?
		The BSD license is considerably more 'free' than the GPL which linux and most linux software is licensed under.
		And the veneration of people like Richard Stallman by the OS/FS crowd is downright creepy, especially when he has a link on his website urging people to donate to that bastion of free speech and rational libertarianism, indymedia.
		I have some serious doubts about both the accuracy and methodology of the report of 19K successful hacks into Linux servers and only 3.8K on Windows boxes.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/003669.html (5583 words)

	PhilSci Archive - The Empirical Stance vs. The Critical Attitude
		But this characterisation emerges from his recognition that to be an empiricist can not be to believe, or decide to commit to belief in, a foundational proposition, without removing any basis for a non-dogmatic empiricist critique of other philosophical approaches, such as materialism.
		However, noticeable by its absence in Van Fraassen's discussions is any mention of Bartley's ‘pancritical rationalism’, for Bartley offers a cohesive argument that genuine dogmatism lies precisely in the act of commitment to an idea.
		Van Fraassen, Popper, Bartley, Critical Rationalism, Metaphysics, Empiricism
	philsci-archive.pitt.edu /archive/00002450 (158 words)

	Bruce Hauptli (FIU PHILOSOPHY FACULTY) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Areas of Interest: Continental Rationalism, British Empiricism, Epistemology, American Philosophy, Ethics, and Wittgenstein
		The Reasonableness of Reason: Explaining Rationality Naturalistically (Chicago: Open Court, 1995)
		"A Dilemma for W.W. Bartley's Pancritical Rationalism," Philosophy of the Social Sciences, v.
	www.fiu.edu /~philosop/cmp/r_hauptli.html (59 words)

	Transtopia -- Links Related to the Principles
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		Pancritical Rationalism: An Extropic Metacontext for Memetic Progress, by Max More.
		A great introduction to the basics of logical reasoning (and how to apply them to religion, for example).
	www.transtopia.org /principlelinks.html (2820 words)

	The KLI Theory Lab - keywords - Bartley
		This keyword was found on the following pages:
		More, M. Pancritical rationalism: An extropic metacontext for memetic progress.
		Paper delivered at EXTRO: The First Extropy Institute Conference on Transhumanist Thought.
	www.kli.ac.at /theorylab/Keyword/B/Bartley.html (53 words)

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