ABSTRACT
One of the presumptions Popper adopted from his acquaintance with both the Wurzburg School and the Vienna Circle was that the outstanding example of the growth of knowledge is the growth of scientific knowledge. His first work after his departure from psychology, therefore, was concerned with identifying the distinguishing features and procedures of science. He believed growth and progress to be inherent qualities of the scientific enterprise; without them it could not exist (CR, p.215). In Popperian philosophy scientific knowledge assumes an importance to a crucial degree. Its growth is pursued in a systematic manner quite opposed to the irregular changes in other areas, like common sense, which is characterised as much by resistance as to change. Science has an intricate set of institutions and procedures that seem to facilitate progress. As such, it represents the highest level, the final form which all knowledge aims to attain (Parekh, 1982, p. 127).
