THE EPISTEMOLOGIST THOUGHT OF KARL POPPER

• Autor(a) principal: Schmidt, Paulo
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Santos, José Luiz dos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: ConTexto
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/ConTexto/article/view/11236
• topic: Epistemologists Thought. Karl Popper. Inductivism. Science. Thomas Kuhn. Falsifiability.; Pensamento Epistemológico. Karl Popper. Indutivismo. Ciência. Thomas Kuhn. Falseabilidade.

Since the antiquity, the criterion of landmark between what it is science and what is not science has been argued. The notion that then was had of science coincided with the search of absolute knowing. One became necessary, for the Greek thinkers, between them, Aristotle, Pythagoras and Descartes, the consolidation of a necessary distinction between knowing contingent and necessary knowing; therefore the only speech that could satisfy to the requirements of the scientific severity was that one that pointed, in the phenomena, causal connections whose necessity could be demonstrated. Before de Popper, the philosophical thought occidental person crossed centuries trying to explain why our theories frequent were missed. In its basic workmanship, the Logic of the Scientific Research, Karl Popper places in new terms the epistemological quarrel when demonstrating that the error, instead of being one badly that it can be prevented through the resource to some specific methodologies procedure, constitutes inevitable component of any scientific theory, being the engine for which science if it moves. Searching to catch the logic of the development of science, Popper initiates its exposition destroying that one that perhaps was, of all the philosophical principles, most expensive to the scientists and the good part of the philosophers of its time: the principle of the induction as method of scientific procedure. In this article, some of the main topics of the popper thought are approached, as the principle of the induction, the conception of science and the falsifiability. Also one intends to allege some debates philosophical, juxtaposing to the opinions of Popper and critics to its thought. The plea alluded to the popper thought come of the professor Thomas S. Kuhn, of Princeton University. Kuhn objects to the opinion of Popper when this states that the scientist is a solution of problems. For Kuhn, the scientists are solvers of enigmas and not of problems. This position, states Kuhn, is almost contrary of Popper. These few differences of opinion between Kuhn and Popper have as intention to develop the erudition on popper thought. One perceives that the originally scientific procedure starts where it finishes the induction. The systematic empirical comment is always a posterior stage to the elaboration of an original hypothesis and has the only purpose to test this hypothesis. The Sir fits a manifestation of gratitude here Karl Raimund Popper for its contribution to the development of the scientific knowledge.