Karl Popper's falsificationism

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The Vienna circle, at the beginning of the 20th century, proposed that the method of science should be based on induction, that is, on the fact that from the beginning of the repeated particular knowledge, we arrive at a knowledge of a general nature, and therefore science can advance by adding knowledge to what it had previously.

Popper claims that this is not true, and he rejects induction as a method of science. He proposes falsification: instead of looking for all the cases that do, look for one case that does not. This is because, according to Popper, millions and millions of verifications do not make a proposition is generally true, and yet once we check that it is false, it makes it false for forever.

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