"Justification" or "Refutation" a Stady the Role of experience in Experimental Science

Subject Areas : Intellectual explorations

Mohammad hossein Ganji ¹ ( دانشیار گروه فلسفه، دانشگاه شهید چمران اهواز )

Received: 2022-08-23 Accepted : 2022-10-29 Published : 2022-11-22

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Abstract :

Distinguishing empirical knowledge from non-empirical knowledge is one of the important issues of epistemology.The criterion for distinguishing "science" from non-empirical knowledge actually goes back to determining the role of experience in science. The traditional and inductive view considers the role of experience to confirm scientific statements.From this point of view, a scientific theorem is a theorem that can be confirmed and finally proved by an experimental method.  The famous philosopher of science, Karl Popper, at the beginning of the 20th century, proposed the criterion of "falsifiability" as a criterion for distinguishing "science" from other types of knowledge.In the present article, the author tries to reveal the epistemological result of his opinion by referring to some of the criticisms that have been made to Popper's theory, that in experimental science, neither definite proof nor definite refutation is possible. This important point is an emphasis on the hypothetical nature of experimental science.