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Encyclopedia > Pancritical rationalism

Pancritical rationalism (PCR) is a development of critical rationalism and panrationalism originated by William Warren Bartley in his book The Retreat to Commitment. PCR attempts to work around the problem of ultimate commitment or infinite regress by decoupling criticism and justification. A pancritical rationalist holds all positions open to criticism, including PCR, and never resorts to authority for justification. Critical rationalism is the philosophy of Karl Raimund Popper. ...


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  • Pancritical Rationalism: An Extropic Metacontext for Memetic Progress

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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.
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