The Logic of Scientific Discovery

work by Popper

Also known as: “Logik der Forschung”

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In positivism: The verifiability criterion of meaning and its offshoots
…his Logik der Forschung (1935; The Logic of Scientific Discovery), insisted that the meaning criterion should be abandoned and replaced by a criterion of demarcation between empirical (scientific) and transempirical (nonscientific, metaphysical) questions and answers—a criterion that, according to Popper, is to be testability, or, in his own version, falsifiability—i.e.,…
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In ideology: Ideology and terror
In Logik der Forschung (1934; The Logic of Scientific Discovery), Popper suggested that the true method of science was not one of observation, hypothesis, and confirmation but one of conjecture and experiment, in which the concept of falsification played a crucial role. By this concept he meant that in science…
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