Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/01839_Field_OMMC T67.txt

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Eventually, my father found the answer to his
question in a book by Karl Popper. One evening he
was reading Karl’s book Objective Knowledge  and
in it Popper made the crucial statement. He said,
“A scientific statement is worded in such a way
that it can be disproven.” Well my gosh, it took two
years to find that out. And nobody, we had the
best brains in the university in our place—nobody
came up with that one. “Well, that’s easy,” he said.
“OK, we can state things in a way that people can
test them.” And so, we began doing that.

Now remember the project we’re working on is that
of revising Understanding Media . So we had two