Popper’s philosophy of science II

Abstract

Popper begins with the thesis that science is a problem-solving process, which is based on the selection of alternative hypotheses and that there is a great similarity between Darwin’s theory and the process of growth of scientific knowledge. Popper’s idea is that the goal of science is the true description of reality, which contains three kinds of entities – three world’s ontology. It is questionable if this distinction does hold water, because it is grounded in the subjective view point of an interpret. Therefore, the whole theory of the growth of scientific knowledge and its objective status is not justified as he assumes, because the best theory should have been the correspondence between the reality and the totality of human knowledge. We have to be satisfied with the common level of the scientific knowledge as the (contemporary) best picture (Truth) of the reality.