Karl Popper, as a critical rationalist, was an opponent of all forms of skepticism, conventionalism and relativism in science. A major argument of Popper is Hume’s critique of induction, arguing that induction should never be used in science. But he disagrees with the skepticism associated with Hume, nor with the support of Bacon and Newton’s pure “observation” as a starting point in the formation of theories, as there are no pure observations that do not imply certain theories. Instead, Popper proposes falsifiability as a method of scientific investigation.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11481.36967
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Sfetcu, Nicolae, “The distinction between falsification and refutation in the demarcation problem of Karl Popper“, SetThings (2019), MultiMedia Publishing (ed.), DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.22522.54725, ISBN 978-606-033-207-7, URL = https://www.telework.ro/ro/e-books/the-distinction-between-falsification-and-refutation-in-the-demarcation-problem-of-karl-popper/
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