What Is the Purpose of Science?

The purpose of science or knowledge creation is to solve a problem get something right create an explanation. Popper argues that although induction cannot establish an induced hypothesis with certainty it can do the next best thing which is attribute to the induced hypothesis some degree of probability and a probability of one would be certainty end quote. I have in the preceding two chapters explored the logical ramifications of the problem of induction there is another ramification however which I have not yet touched on because it is not logically connected to the problem of induction but it is connected by ties that may prove even stronger than logic by the inductive prejudice and by a mistaken solution of the Problem of induction. i like to say that what we