EKPOMA Volume 4 Number 1 2017

KARL POPPER, SCIENTIFIC METHOD, THE GROWTH OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Sunday O. DADA, PhD Philip O. ISANBOR
Abstract

Contemporary assessments on the advancement in science and technology have given room to value and evaluate some philosophical theories that have been adamantly influential to the conquest for the betterment; of; humanity Such; theories; include:; behaviourism, physicalism,; particularism,; reliabilism,; modal; principle; of; science, verificationism, logical atomism, parallelism, fatalism, consequentialism, falsificationism, conceptualism, structural intentionality,; etc It; is; against; this; platform; that; we; evaluate; the developmental temerity inherent in Karl Popper's theory offalsification1 and; collaboration,; a; theory; that; emphasised; on; the demarcation of sciences from pseudo-science, emphatically, in relation 2 to the growth of science education. In it, he affirms the uncertainty on the establishment of truth which is not fallible has the very evident of non-conclusion, and then, he demanded that no system should be taken as a paradigm for the measurement of what should be regarded as knowledge. Popper on his part with the theory of falsifiability says that any fact can be refuted, no matter the strength of the medium of its measurement,; even; science; with; its; meticulous; procedures; of ascertaining facts. He tries to demarcate science and metaphysics, and systematically unified them, only, in the domain of complementarity in the certainty of truth.

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