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Nature of Explanation & Enquiry Assessment (Answer any three questions)



Nature of Explanation & Enquiry Assessment (Answer any three questions)

According to Popper, would your discipline be a science, a pseudo-science, or not scientific at all? Justify your answer.

Although Karl Popper (1902-1994) had in his early relationship with many members of the Vienna Circle, from his early work the logic of scientific research (1934) and was very critical of it. However, this work had very cursory coverage for years, and it was not until the early sixties when Popper came to be known, and valued. Against the neo-positivism, Popper called his stance critical rationalism. Unlike the Vienna Circle, Popper science is unable to verify whether a hypothesis is true, but it can reveal whether it is false. Why not serve the induction, because although that experience can never examine all possible cases and a single counterexample is sufficient to overturn a theory. Verifications stance against the dominant thus far in philosophy of science, Popper proposed falsifiability. Although, Popper was realistic, but does not accept the certainty, that is, you never know when our knowledge is true. Popper began by describing the science, but in his philosophical development came to be prescriptive (though without reaching the regulatory rigor Circle), recommending to science the hypothetical, deductive method. That is science does not make certain statements from data, but suggests hypothesis (which although based on the experience often go beyond it and predict recent experiences) that subjected to experimental filter to detect errors (Keuth, Herbert, 2004, p. 37).

However, he had, deeper - philosophical - basis in order to make the core of falsificationism in its methodology (Keuth, Herbert, 2004, p. 37). Popper believes in the objective existence of the physical world and recognizes that human cognition tends to the true description of this world. He was even willing to accept the fact that a person can get true knowledge of the world. However, Popper denies the existence of the criterion of truth - a criterion that would allow us to provide the truth of the totality of our beliefs. Even if, we were in a scientific search for truth stumbled, we cannot know with certainty that it is - the truth. Neither the consistency nor the conformability of the empirical data can be a criterion of truth. Any fantasy can be represented in a consistent form, and often false beliefs confirmed. In an effort to understand the world men put forward a hypothesis, a theory, and formulate laws, but they can never say with certainty that it was because they have created - true. The only thing we can do is to find a lie in our views and reject it. Constantly identifying and discarding false, we can thus closer to the truth. This justifies our desire for knowledge and limits skepticism. One might say that scientific knowledge and philosophy of science based on two fundamental ideas: the idea that science can give, and give us the truth, and the idea that science frees ...