The Twentieth Century to Today · School
Philosophy of Science
Popper proposed falsifiability and Kuhn paradigm shifts; between them they rewrote how science is understood to progress.
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Karl Popper波普尔
Falsifiability demarcates science from non-science, knowledge grows by conjecture and refutation, and the open society advances by piecemeal social engineering rather than utopian blueprints.
Thomas Kuhn库恩
Paradigms, normal science, scientific revolutions, incommensurability: science is not the accumulation of truth but the succession of world-views. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is among the most cited academic books of the century.