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Issues On The Popper's Methodology Of Falsificationism

Posted on:2009-04-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L CongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2120360272975973Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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Popper raised critical rationalism against logical empiricism. Standards on theories of science were transferred from principle to falsificationism. Therefore, the rise of methodology of was the predecessor of critical rationalism .Falsificationism provided methodological foundation for later historicism.It is evidently confirmed that popper's methodology of falsificationismlinks between logical empiricism and historicism of science .even though both defaults, it is preferred to think the methodology of falsificationism as emphasis on links of both.The article is composed of by three parts:Part one Backgrounds about the rise of the methodology of falsificationism.Part two interpretation of the methodology of falsificationism.Part three development and prophecy of the methodology of falsificationism.Part oneMach criticized inductionism in which metaphysics was involved and suggested entire empiricism while the viewpoints of eradication structure and function is critical . Wittgenstein assimilated substance of empiricism and provided verifiability principle against metaphysics. However, it is inevitable that logical empiricism characterized methodological conventionalism , Popper criticized inductionism and methodological conventionalism, relying on his methodology of falsificationism.Part twoPopper built the system of methodology of falsificationism up and the epistemological foundation of this methodology derived from anti-induction then, principles of falsification and of verisimilitude were presented as standards of evaluation of science.Part threePopper's methodology of falsificationism characterized the new ontology of science, the evolutionary model of developments of science epistemological foundation of historicism, kuhn's paradigm, the methodology of the science research, the methodology of anarchism and domain of information originated from Popper's methodology, Undoubtedly, essential stuffs of the methodology of falsificationism are still worth to be exploited.
Keywords/Search Tags:Popper, objective knowledge, the Methodology of Falsificationism, verisimilitude
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