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Evaluating the Theory of Karl Popper

point. Is it possible to make a sharp distinction between science and non-science? What is Poppers way of demarcating scientific ...

Attack on Personal Identity by David Hume and Karl Popper's Response

In five pages Hume's attack on the self or personal identity is discussed as represented in A Treatise of Human Nature and also co...

Margaret Wheatley's Leadership and the New Science and Karl Popper's A Survey of Some Fundamental Problems

that seem to drive us to distrust change and the inevitable occurrences that are associated with such. "We seem fixated on structu...

Karl Popper's Method and Educational Research

irrational attitude towards the customs of social life, and the corresponding rigidity of those customs" (Popper quoted in McInnes...

Falsification Theories of Karl Popper

In fifteen pages Karl Popper's 1934 The Logic of Scientific Theory is examined in terms of the proof and falsification theories de...

Karl Marx and the Criticism of Karl Popper

with the use of a random sample, one can say that a conclusion may be drawn. If it is found that children will think like their pa...

Falsifiability and Karl Popper

at the time of his own writing (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2002). What Popper was doing was going against the commonly a...

Galilean Science, Ptolemy, and Aristotle Viewed from the Perspective of Karl Popper

In eight pages this paper considers Karl Popper's thoughts on Galileo's theories, who himself had been critical of Ptolemy and Ari...

Clifford, Karl Popper, Insufficient Evidence, and the O.J. Simpson Case

In five pages this paper examines Clifford's claim that insufficient evidence leads to lack of believability in a discussion that ...

Obstacles of Knowledge According to Francis Bacon

were synonymous. In his investigations into science, Aristotle knew of inductive reasoning, but he relied heavily on use of the de...

Class Struggles, and the Value Labor Theory of Karl Marx

workers, meaning wages begin to decline. Also inherent in such a scenario involves promotion of cheap-wage goods (imports) to furt...

Knowing Truth That Has Not Been Proven

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

Refutations and Conjectures

to favor a theory, Popper believed, was taking the easy way out; only by finding a theorys flaws and weaknesses could it be consid...

Views of Popper and Schlick on Metaphysics

In seven pages Popper's falsification and verification comparison along with Schlick's theory on verification are examined in this...

Quantity v. Quality in Utilitarianism

This 5 page paper analyzes John Stuart Mill's theory of Utilitarianism, how it works and how it evaluates actions, both quantitati...

Delinquency and Deviance Theories

However, in some cases the desired goals would not be equally available to all social groups, in others there might be too...

Knowledge as a Construct of Society

In seven pages this research paper applies the philosophies of Karl Popper, Emile Durkheim, and Michel Foucault to an examination ...

Comparing Socialism and Liberalism

to public hands which would be the beginning of communism. The Communist Manifesto was a statement on how capitalist society exis...

Probability Interpretations

In eight pages the probability interpretations of propensity, subjective, and logical are evaluated with the inclusion of philosop...

Social Class and its Societal Importance

between the Marx and Weberian points of view (Rose & Marshall, 1989). Indeed, social class is something that is not clear cut. Sti...

The Communication Privacy Management Theory - Analysis

boundary. The private information falls within a boundary; the individual believes they own whatever information is included withi...

The Communication Privacy Management Theory - Evaluation

to keep private information private and everyone believes they own their own private information. This certainly echoes the cultur...

Fleming's Penicillin Discovery and Popper's Refutations and Conjectures Model

knowledge; from this perspective, we would say that Newtonian physics was the paradigm which was overturned by Einstein, and Einst...

A Personal Code of Ethics

tied to either philosophic or religious thought. In developing a unique, personal system, questions emerge. Should a code be c...

Traditional Research Interpretations

customs of social life, and the corresponding rigidity of those customs" (Popper quoted in McInnes, 2002; p. 72). This perspectiv...

Examination of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

(not many women were in places of ruling in those days), the people who controlled the production of product and the money made. T...

The Myth of Scientific Progess

themselves, but rather because of sweeping conceptual changes across culture as a whole (Kuhn, 1996). For instance, the industrial...

Derived Theory of Smoking Relapse Analyzed

then transpose and restate it, in order to explain the phenomenon (1987). Then, the identification of content from the parent theo...

Deviance in Conflict Theory and Consensus

the process of indicating which individuals abide by the prescribed societal rules and which ones do not. Generally, a community ...

Social Journey of Economic Theory

In six pages the influence of society upon economic theory is considered in a discussion of theories by J.M. Keynes, Karl Marx, Th...