Popper's Claim Of Scientific Knowledge

It is a common belief that knowledge, coming from science, must be rational. Natural philosophers, known as scientists, use a method based on experimentation to arrive to scientific knowledge. Due to the nature of this process, it is common to assume that this information must be truth. However, when determining what classifies as scientific knowledge and how science works, there is much more to take into account
Therefore, the aim of this essay is to analyze the claim made by Allan Chalmers, and to discuss Popper’s perspective towards this claim. To accomplish this, I will introduce two major approaches to science, induction and falsification. Furthermore, I will examine the problems each theory has and how they are able to compliment each …show more content…
Nonetheless, I my opinion one compliment the other. The limitation of one is the strength of the other. For instance in induction, the question that arises is whether this claims or laws can be wrong or disproof. For example, imagine a scenario where a scientist is observing an object’s reaction to a situation. The scientist observes the same results over a series of trials and concludes that under certain conditions the object will always react in the same way. Nonetheless, if the object reacts in a different way, would the previous conclusion be disproved and would that information be false and unreliable? This hypothetical situation is considered a problem in induction because it is hard to incorporate new knowledge and to falsify previous one. While induction does not do much when encountering new information that can disprove scientific knowledge, the hypothethico-deductivism method does incorporate a solution to this flaw by using …show more content…
However, in real life, hypotheses are constantly being supported by data obtained form experimentation. Additionally, there is no need for all the data to follow the same pattern to support a hypothesis. Even though, both accounts have limitations, they also overlap. For instance, Poppers idea of proposing a hypothesis or an educated speculation uses induction because when proposing a possible outcome scientists base their guess in previous knowledge. They use past observations and experiences to predict an outcome, and then test it, to finally support it. Then this process will lead to the creation of general principles or laws by means of deduction and