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F o r it never was said t h a t an o b s e r v a t i o n - s t a t e m e n t c a n n o t falsify a laws t a t e m e n t . Only t h a t m o s t recent philosophers of science have agreed t h a t scientists never regard t h e m as doing so. And t h a t is a p r o p o s i t i o n w h i c h is so very far from being a s t a t e m e n t of logic, a c o n t r i b u t i o n ( w h e t h e r a true or a false o n e ) t o t h e logic of science, t h a t it actually belongs t o the sociology of t h e p h i l o s o p h y of science!
Y e t , characteristically, it was h e w h o began the practice, and b y t h e a u t h o r i t y of his e x a m p l e gave it currency. His m o s t influential act of sabotage occurs in a part of The Logic of Scientific Discovery which is seldom read, or at any rate r e m e m b e r e d , b y a n y b u t a d e p t s . The instance m u s t have b e e n sufficiently grievous, because even people n o t otherwise apt 4 t o criticise P o p p e r c o m p l a i n e d of i t , and w h a t is m o r e r e m a r k a b l e still, P o p p e r himself later said in print t h a t w h a t he h a d w r i t t e n at this place was " n o t t o m y o w n 5 T o readers in w h o m t h e critical faculty is n o t entirely e x t i n c t , full s a t i s f a c t i o n " .
T h a t is, a logical expression, o n c e e m b e d d e d in a volitional c o n t e x t , cannot retain its implication a b o u t logical relations, b u t m u s t b e sabotaged. Every t i m e , t h e r e f o r e , t h a t o u r a u t h o r s e m b e d a logical expression in a volitional c o n t e x t , we have y e t a n o t h e r instance in their writings o f a logical expression being deprived of its implication a b o u t t h e logical relation b e t w e e n propositions. T h e practice o f sabotaging logical expressions b y e m b e d d i n g t h e m in c o n t e x t s a b o u t scientists, and again K u h n ' s 'tautological o p t i m i s m ' a b o u t science, c o r r e s p o n d , in an easily u n d e r s t a n d a b l e w a y , t o a certain substantive thesis a b o u t logical expressions and scientists.