The growth of knowledge

The growth of knowledge

A term coined by Karl Popper in his famous work The Logic of Scientific Discovery to denote what he regarded as the main problem of methodology and the philosophy of science, i.e. to explain and promote the further growth of scientific knowledge. To this purpose Popper advocated his theory of falsifiability, testability and testing. See also falsification.


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