Karl Popper, as a critical rationalist, was an opponent of all forms of
skepticism, conventionalism and relativism in science. A major argument of
Popper is Hume's critique of induction, arguing that induction should never be
used in science. But he disagrees with the skepticism associated with Hume, nor
with the support of Bacon and Newton's pure "observation" as a starting point in
the formation of theories, as there are no pure observations that do not imply
certain theories. Instead, Popper proposes falsifiability as a method of
scientific investigation.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11481.36967