The Philosophy of Science as Treatment
The Philosopher’s Conquest
The Philosopher’s Conquest Giorgio de Chirico 1914

Karl Popper’s theory of falsification in the philosophy of science aims at demarcating science from pseudoscience. It does this through error. That is, a scientific theory is not scientific because it can always prove itself right, but because it possesses the property of potentially being wrong. Recognising that a theory is scientific only if it satisfies the criteria that it can be proved wrong, that is, falsified, is an intellectual process whose application can be extended beyond scientific practice...

The Astronomer
The Astronomer Johannes Vermeer 1668