Motifs of Enlightenment Ideology in Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery

Abstract

This essay seeks to contribute to that scholarship by arguing that the enlightenment ideology was an incisive and decisive influence on the formation and development of Popper’s falsificationist methodology of science. It is significant to point out this ideological conditioning in view of Popper’s deployment of great erudition to pass his refutability criterion off as an objective logico-mathematical axiom or algorithm dictated by, and exemplified in, scientific practice.