id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_pegr6yaozvcydfrjnlspd6l6de Nicholas Maxwell A Critique of Popper's Views on Scientific Method 1972 20 .pdf application/pdf 12431 655 57 criticism is that Popper has failed to provide us with any reason for holding that the methodological than other sorts of theories ; which in turn means that Popper fails to solve adequately his simply to specify an aim for science and a set of methodological rules: we need in addition some revised methodological rules give us a better hope of realizing the fundamental aim of science Now if aim (1) is accepted, Popper's methodological rules follow analytically from the in accordance with Popper's acceptance and rejection rules provides no reason whatsoever rationale for Popperian methodological rules, given that our aim for science is in turn (2), (3), In this case 'refutation', for example, simply means that the methodological rules require that we reject the theory in question. (b) Given that the aim of science is to develop theories of both increasing explanatory ./cache/work_pegr6yaozvcydfrjnlspd6l6de.pdf ./txt/work_pegr6yaozvcydfrjnlspd6l6de.txt