The Central Mistake of Historicism: Karl Popper on Why Trend is Not Destiny<\/a>“.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stop and just go read the superb Farnam Street Blog on “The Central Mistake of Historicism: Karl Popper on Why Trend is Not Destiny“.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,139,14,15,42,17,19],"tags":[296],"class_list":["post-17539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-critical-thinking","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-psychology","category-science","category-sociology-social-sciences","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-4yT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16934,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/how-to-compose-a-successful-critical-commentary\/","url_meta":{"origin":17539,"position":0},"title":"How to compose a successful critical commentary","author":"Limbic","date":"December 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cIn disputes upon moral or scientific points, let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. 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