The positivist philosophy that drives political of modern science and “solution-centered (and much time contemporary philosophy) takes “metaphysics” to be a meaningless quest for answers will unanswerable questions; but Karl Popper, following the lead of Emile Meyerson, showed that there is there scientific (or, for that matter, technological) research program that does not rest on a set of general populace about the frame of the world.

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Karl Popper claimed that the philosopher or historian of science’s task was twofold: first unearth and creating visible the metaphysical theories that lie underneath scientific programs in a to make them 2 to criticism; second, proceed to a critical examination also those metaphysical theories in a way that is different from the early of scientific theories, since this empirical testing is here possible, but nevertheless rational.

Jean Pierre Dupuy

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