Abstract

The philosophy of science that began with Sir Francis Bacon's view of the disinterested scientist collecting observations culminated in Karl Popper's view that science proceeds by proving good ideas wrong, to be replaced by better ones. Along the way, it encountered Thomas Kuhn's idea that science proceeds by means of mutually exclusive paradigms.

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