Our Knowledge of the Growth of Knowledge (Routledge Revivals) · Popper or Wittgenstein?

Peter Munz, a former student of both Popper and Wittgenstein, begins his comparison of the two great 20th-century philosophers, by explaining that since the demise of positivism there have emerged, broadly speaking, two philosophical options: Wittgenstein, with the absolute relativism of his theory that meaning is a function of language games and that social configurations are determinants of knowledge; and Popper's evolutionary epistemology - conscious knowledge is a special case of the relationship which exists between all living beings and their environments.