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Popper's Three Worlds
In the 1970s, British philosopher Karl Popper was developing a way of examining reality that he called the Three Worlds. These weren't worlds in the traditional sense but rather conceptual realms. I'll do my best to explain.
World 1 is the world of physical objects and states. It's the inorganic—matter and ener…
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