Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn
Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn both men who study science in collage and lived through out the same time period, the 20th Century were the rise of Marxism, Communism, Democracy and Science changed the way people live and thought of things. Karl a philosopher and Thomas a physicist both criticized the work of other whether it was done wrong or simply not finished correctly. This both great thinkers changed the way people looked at science and define science. To start off Thomas Kuhn always thought that there were to types of science. “Normal Science” the easy one everybody in the world did every day. Here is what Thomas said in his book “Structure of Scientific Revulsions”; “Normal Science", that is to say every day, bread-and-butter science, is a "puzzle-solving" activity conducted under a reigning "paradigm”. An "anomaly" arises when a puzzle, considered as important or essential in some way, cannot be solved. The anomaly cannot be written off as just an ill-conceived research project; it continues to assert itself as a thorn in the side of the practicing scientists. The anomaly is a novelty that cannot be written off, and which cannot be solved.” This was all in the Kuhn’ Cycle and it the model was good that it navigated through the Industrial Revolution, two world wars, the Great Depression, the Cold War, and other world problems. Popper thought that justification worked throughout falsification, and never through verification, he obviously agreed that such propositions didn’t need to be proven in the sense of logical derivation. For that reason it is now common in science to use falsifiability as a criterion for dismissing theories or claims as parts of science. Popper 's own critique of Marx and Freud as falsifiable was a classic study, and the salutary influence of the principle in discussion of psychics or astrology is occasionally seen. This is how Thomas and Karl thought that science should be done.
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Karl believed that every "good" scientific theory is a
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