Evolusionary epistemology: K. P. Popper and I. P. Merkulov - optimism and pessimism in cognition

The article compares the values of the knowledge of evolutionary epistemology of hypothetical realism and evolutionary epistemology of critical realism. The author concludes that the hypothetical evolutionary epistemology realism reflects a pessimistic mood on the possibility of cognition, and evolutionary epistemology of critical realism depicts an optimistic one.