The Historicism of David Deutsch

This article is inspired by Brian Moon's article The Poverty of Memes (2025) (read on Medium or as a PDF ). Moon's article criticizes David Deutsch's meme theory (found in The Beginning of Infinity (BoI) (2011)) for being refuted in advance by Karl Popper's critiques in The Poverty of Historicism (PoH) (1944). Due to Moon's article, I've reviewed PoH and compared it with BoI. Moon has also…