The Philosophy of Science as Treatment

Karl Popper’s theory of falsification in the philosophy of science aims at demarcating science from pseudoscience. It does this through error. That is, a scientific theory is not scientific because it can always prove itself right, but because it possesses the property of potentially being wrong. Recognising that a theory is scientific only if it satisfies the criteria that it can be proved wrong, that is, falsified, is an intellectual process whose application can be extended beyond scientific practice...