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It strikes me that Popper’s quite popular formulation is a half-truth, a problematic thing. It would be like saying that calculus was only differentiation or the physics was only infinite division of what at each time we thought was the atoma, the indivisible foundation on which all is build. As it is, calculus also has the opposite pole, that of integration, of seeking the complete unity, and in physics we seek to understand the totality of our universe. Concerning the philosophy of science Popper’s formulation is an eristic view to dialogue. I fail to see how a replacement of one dogma for another necessarily constitutes a growth, let a lone a growth of knowledge. It seems that there has to be more to it. Secondly, this view is often used to claim that only theories which have inbuilt tangibility to be themselves disprove by standard empirical methods are acceptable as scientific. No disagreement allowed there. The appeal goes much further back in the history of western thought, to Heraclitus. A fragment of his text, known as DK53 reads: “War [Gr. polemos] is the father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.” (Trl. T.M. Robinson, 1987). Heraclitus is notoriously hard to interpret. But he was hardly endorsing skepticism clad in modern empirical model of science. For that he seems to have been far to skeptical of the power of sense-perception.