EKPOMA Volume 3 Number 1 2016

AN APPRAISAL OF POPPER'S THEORY OF FALSIFICATION

Philip O. ISANBOR
Abstract

Modern philosophy highly demands epistemic verification for the establishment of facts or for the claim of truth. Truth that looks always very elusive has also been a continuous issue for epistemic discourse. Truth is built on the knowledge that is verified and certain. And the sense and the culture of verification bring the development of the science and its applications. For the purpose of expatiating the terrain of truth, science came into human quest of development, as Popper will consciously expound that; The birth of modern science and technology had Bacon; and; Descartes; as; its; spokesmen They taught that there was no need for any man to appeal to authority in matters of truth because each man carried the sources of knowledge in himself, either in his power of sense-perception … or in his power of intellectual intuition.

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