Does Scientific Discovery Have a Logic?
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It is unusual for an author, less than one-tenth of the way through his work, to disclaim the existence of the subject matter that the title of his treatise announces, yet that is exactly what Karl Popper does in his classic, The Logic of Scientific Discovery.
Abstract
It is unusual for an author, less than one-tenth of the way through his work, to disclaim the existence of the subject matter that the title of his treatise announces. Yet that is exactly what Karl Popper does in his classic, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, [4], announcing in no uncertain terms on p. 31 that scientific discovery has no logic. The disclaimer is so remarkable that it deserves to be quoted at length: I said above that the work of the scientist consists in putting forward and testing theories.