Karl Popper maintains that the role of scientific tests is to refute or falsify theories not confirm them. So science, he says, makes fallible conjectures, the bolder the better. For Popper, science is built level by level, setting new knowledge on top of the old. The structure of science, however, is built on a bottomless swamp with long sturdy piles driven far into the earth;that's what keeps it on a fairly even keel. Criticisms of Popper's emphasis on falsification echo those posed against inductivism: "Does science really work that way?"

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Popper, Karl, role of scientific tests, falsification of theories, fallible conjectures, Epistemology

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