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This document discusses science, technology, and society and the human condition. It introduces falsification theory, which asserts that an ideology should be accepted if it is not proven false and best explains a phenomenon over other theories. It describes Karl Popper, the prominent proponent of falsification theory, as an Austrian-British philosopher and professor known for critiquing theories like Marx's theory of social history and Freud's psychoanalysis. Additionally, it notes that science is now viewed more as a social endeavor that benefits society, rather than solely belonging to scientists in laboratories.

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This document discusses science, technology, and society and the human condition. It introduces falsification theory, which asserts that an ideology should be accepted if it is not proven false and best explains a phenomenon over other theories. It describes Karl Popper, the prominent proponent of falsification theory, as an Austrian-British philosopher and professor known for critiquing theories like Marx's theory of social history and Freud's psychoanalysis. Additionally, it notes that science is now viewed more as a social endeavor that benefits society, rather than solely belonging to scientists in laboratories.

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This document discusses science, technology, and society and the human condition. It introduces falsification theory, which asserts that an ideology should be accepted if it is not proven false and best explains a phenomenon over other theories. It describes Karl Popper, the prominent proponent of falsification theory, as an Austrian-British philosopher and professor known for critiquing theories like Marx's theory of social history and Freud's psychoanalysis. Additionally, it notes that science is now viewed more as a social endeavor that benefits society, rather than solely belonging to scientists in laboratories.

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CHAPTER II

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND


SOCIETY AND THE HUMAN
CONDITION
Introduction
• "Good spirited"
• As time change, elements that comprise human Flo
urishing changed.
• People found means live more comfortably, explore
more places, develop more products and make mor
e money and repeating the full circle
FALCIFICATION THEORY

• Asserts that as long as an ideology is no


t proven to be false and can best explai
n a phenomenon over alternative theori
es we should accept the said ideology.
• Karl Popper is the known as the propon
ent of this view.
KARL POPPER
Karl Popper

• He is a Austrian-British Philosopher and


professor.
• He was notorious for stating that up-an
d-coming theories of the time, such as
Marx's theory of Social History and Sigm
und Frued's Psychoanalysis.
SCIENCE AS A SOCIAL ENDEAVOR

• Sciences cease to belong solely to gown


wearing, bespectacled scientists at labo
ratories.
• The new view perpetuates a dimension
which generally benefits the society.

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