| Karl Raimund Popper (1902-1994), founder of critical rationalism, born in a Jewish family in Vienna, was one of the most influential and the most controversial philosopher of science in the 20th century. His study on philosophy involved in almost every major field of human knowledge, but rather to explore the theme of philosophy, which is about the phenomenon of "human knowledge" issue, the greatest miracle we create in the universe, in particular, the scientific truth theory.Truth is a very important theory issue in the epistemology of philosophy. What is truth? What is the nature of truth? In the history of western epistemology, philosophers have been long and heatedly debating about truth and its essence. There are four kinds of truth theories in the western philosophy: the correspondence theory of truth, the coherence theory of truth, the pragmatism theory of truth, the redundancy theory of truth. Dispute and the opposition among them constitute the logic outline of truth theories in the western philosophy.Popper lived in the atmosphere of free and open society with various social agitations. The rapid development of science, scientific theories and the crisis logical positivism encountered, contributed to Popper's truth theory. Popper is a critical rationalist, and he is deeply affected by Tarski's truth theory. Popper introduced the conceptions of "verisimilitude" and "fidelity", and so on, thus forming a unique scientific truth "verisimilitude ". The property of closure to the truth, which is had by science theory, is named as "verisimilitude" by Popper. The degree of closing to the truth is named as "fidelity". Popper think science's goal is to find a theory which is much closer to truth, although we do not know how far it is from the truth, we can get closer to the truth.Popper's critique of relativism in truth and absolute truth on the basis of doctrine evolved. The truth is objective. It can be wrong and constantly enrich the connotation of such approximation. During the studies in "verisimilitude" have been achieved, but not many novelties. Popper's "verisimilitude" theory has been criticized by many scholars. Armitage and Miller pointed out the fatal error of Popper's definition. Nevertheless, there are many scholars for Popper's "verisimilitude" of truth to the defense.In my paper, with previous studies and personal thinking. I'm trying to critique the basis of inheritance that has been exceeded, to better absorb the essence of Popper's thought, attention to critical thinking and scientific value of the dynamic model of the law, so as to promote our social and scientific progress. |
