Shumdehan, Hailemichael (1996) The Nature and Role of Karl Popper's Falsification Principle. Masters thesis, Catholic University of Eastern Africa.
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Abstract
With Galileo and Newton, science had taken a new direction which is both mechanistic and quantitative; a phenomenon that has since then immensely affected philosophical endeavour. A philosophy called "naturalism" and its basic dimension "positivism" sought for a form of "scientific philosophy" that reduces all philosophical assertions to positive facts. Among the philosophers of the time, Home oversimplified the knowing process; yet, he deserves a credit for identifying the problem of induction. Karl, who professed to be greatly disturbed by Hume's analysis, replaced Hume's preoccupation with inductive generalizations by the deductive structure of Euclidean geometry and Newtonian mechanics. The modem understanding of 'theories' and the clear articulation of the problem of demarcation is attributed to Karl who introduced regulative principles in science. Such regulative principles of the "Pure Reason" were not meant to justify a particular empirical system; rather, like methodological rules they prescribe ways in which these scientific theories meet the ideal of systematic generalizations.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) |
| Divisions: | Comparative |
| Depositing User: | JHI Africa |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2014 11:57 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Aug 2014 11:57 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/108 |
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