ABSTRACT
Popper sees Darwinism as an application of what he called (PH, pp. 149-50) the logic of situations. According to this, if we want to understand why someone did something or why some theory was proposed, we should see the action or the theory as a response to the problem being confronted. Problem-solving is to be seen in Darwinian terms, That is to say, the response to the problem is thrown up as a hypothesis and then subjected to environmental pressures, which lead to its complete rejection, its modification or its acceptance. But it will be accepted only so long as it is not confronted by a new problem it cannot solve. In all probability the new problem will be thrown up by the old solution itself. We
are presented with the schema in Figure 1 in which P is a problem, TS a tentative solution and EE the work of error elimination.
