Karl Popper is a great believer in the power and virtue of science. And much of the reason that he believes in science so firmly - as we see in both of his essays "On the Theory of the Objective Mind" and "Epistemology Without a Knowing Subject" is that science is falsifiable. It is this aspect of science that - more than anything else - sets it apart from religion and other forms of philosophy. The scientific method, and scientific ways of thinking, allow us to determine whether something is objectively true or not because science provides us with ways of demonstrating that something is false. This stands in direct contrast with an epistemological system such as religion in which there is no way (for example) to prove or disprove the existence of God. Religion, and some philos
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