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This 5 page paper looks at Karl Popper's critical rationalism and provides examples. Criticism of the theory is also discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the philosophy of science encompass several logical dilemmas. One is the problem of induction where scientists take observations and reach universal conclusions (Honderich 809). That is, a scientist experiments and
records observations and assumes that what he sees in the laboratory will happen in everyday life. Yet, the old question as to whether or not a tree makes a sound
when it falls if no one is there to hear it is quite relevant to this discussion. One assumes that a falling tree makes a sound. But what is a
sound? Is a sound made if there is no receptor? Thus, the dilemma is that the seeming purity of science may in fact be challenged. Yet, Karl Popper had attempted
to resolve the problem by suggesting that science really does not rely on induction anyway (809). He noted that science merely puts forth hypotheses and then others try to
refute them (809). While Poppers statement is valid, it is subject to criticism as well. Science, although not necessarily absolute, is often accepted as such. Ironically, by proving a result
false--according to Popper--one can also prove that the result is scientific. Many questions loom large and suggest that Popper had a point. Is it possible to make a sharp
distinction between science and non-science? What is Poppers way of demarcating scientific theories from unscientific ones? Karl Popper created a philosophy called critical rationalism, a philosophy
of science that supports a critical attitude and is opposed to dogmatism ("Some Historically" PG). Fallibilism contends that there are no evident truths which are based on reason or
observation and scientific realism aims to produce true theories, where truth is to be understood as corresponding with reality (PG). Here, the emphasis is on deductive inferences as
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