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In philosophy of science, the belief that a
scientific theory must be under constant
scrutiny and that its merit lies only in how
well it stands up to rigorous testing. First
expounded by the philosopher Karl Popper in
his Logic of Scientific Discovery 1934. Such
thinking also implies that a theory can only
be held to be scientific if it makes
predictions that are clearly testable.
Philosophers and historians such as Thomas
Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend have attempted to
use the history of science to show that
scientific progress has resulted from a more
complicated methodology than Popper suggests.