How long does it take to read Objective Knowledge?
An Evolutionary Approach
Objective Knowledge by Karl R. Popper takes about 7 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours
A weekend read
First published 1972. 382 pages, about 105,050 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The essays in this volume represent an approach to human knowledge that has had a profound influence on many recent thinkers. Popper breaks with a traditional commonsense theory of knowledge that can be traced back to Aristotle. A realist and fallibilist, he argues closely and in simple language that scientific knowledge, once stated in human language, is no longer part of ourselves but a separate entity that grows through critical selection.
Subjects: Theory of Knowledge, Induction (Logic), Knowledge, theory of, Induction (Logique), Connaissance, Théorie de la, Intelligence
