Karl Popper was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His criticism of induction and his falsifiability criterion of demarcation between science and non-science were major ...

excerpted from The Logic of Scientific discovery (London: Hutchinson, 1959) by Karl Popper A scientist ... And what do we call 'empirical science' ? Now it is far from obvious, from a logical point of ...

Later, the philosopher Karl Popper argued the defining characteristic of real science is that it must be capable of being debunked, in other words, it must be falsifiable. This has long been ...

Distinguishing between proper science and pseudoscience is sometimes difficult. One popular proposal for demarcation between the two is the falsification criterion, most notably contributed to by the ...

That sounds like science. But it can’t lead to reliable knowledge, because you can never know a black swan isn’t in the next pond. The thing is, scientists don’t stick to Popper’s strict ...