Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge: Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research?

摘要: My object in these pages is to juxtapose the view of scientific development outlined my book, The Structure Scientific Revolutions , with better known views our chairman, Sir Karl Popper. Ordinarily I should decline such an undertaking, for am not so sanguine as about utility confrontations. Besides, have admired his work too long turn critic easily at this date. Nevertheless, persuaded that occasion attempt must be made. Even before book was published two and a half years ago, had begun discover special often puzzling characteristics relation between his. That divergent reactions encountered it suggest disciplined comparison may produce peculiar enlightenment. Let me say why think could occur. On almost all occasions when we explicitly same problems, Karl's science own are very nearly identical. We both concerned dynamic process by which knowledge acquired rather than logical structure products research. Given concern, us emphasize, legitimate data, facts also spirit actual life, history find them. From pool shared draw many conclusions.