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Falsifiability
One of Karl Popper's contributions to science was his claim of falsifiability. Popper released his book “Logik der Forschung in 1934,” which introduced his idea of falsifiability. His book was later translated to english in 1959 as “The Logic of Scientific Discovery.” Popper's idea sprung to life when he came across a few factors in his research. -
Falsifiability
Adding the ad hoc hypothesis to The Marxist Account, Popper concluded that the facts were in line with the theory, thus scientific. Putting together all of these factors, Popper took on Falsifiability to set up the guidelines in which he used to determine the difference between science and non-science. -
Falsifiability
Popper also concluded that with advancement in technology, further research and more clarification of a theory, can change whether or not a theory could be considered scientific versus non-scientific. Thornton, Stephen. “Karl Popper (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stephen Thornton, 7 Aug. 2018, plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/#BackHisThou. -
Falsifiability
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Falsifiability
These factors were, the “scientific” theories of Freud and Adler and the revolution effected by Einstein’s theory of relativity in physics. (Thornton) Popper was attracted to these factors by their differences between the two. Also Popper analyzed The Marxist account of history. From here Popper took into account falsification. In the beginning Popper interpreted it as that was scientific, but when the hypothesis did not pan out the way it was predicted he turned to his idea of falsifiability.