The Logic of Scientific Discovery
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 2002-03-29
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Retrieved
- Jun 21, 2012
- ISBN
- T76Zd20IYl
2 memes from this reference
Science is Built on a Swamp
Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building erected on piles. The piles are driven down from above into the swamp, but not down to any natural or 'given' base; and when we cease our attempts to drive our piles into a deeper layer…
Theories Must be Falsifiable
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.