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"In this relation Lynos mentions: "Most linguists who subscribe to the definition of their discipline as the scientific study of language do so because they have in mind some distinction between a scientific and non-scientific way of doing things"(Lyons, 1981:37) Linguistics to be named as a scientific discipline like other branches of science borrows frameworks are mainly developed in the philosophy of science.
Popper was one of those philosophers who challenged the principle of verification and seemingly refuted induction as the main machinery of scientific and/or empirical theories.
Liguistics3 as a scientific and/or empirical field of inquiry also adhered to the notion of falsifiability in the sense mentioned(Lyons, 1981; McLaughlin, 1987,1991c; Beretta, 1991; Schumann, 1993; Long, 1993, 1985; Larsen-Freeman, 1990; Newmayer; 1986).
Perhaps his best-known works are The Open Society and Its Enemies(1945)and The Poverty of Historicism(1957), in which he vigorously attacks Historicism, the view that there are general laws of historical development that make history predictable: Conjectures and Refutations(1963)presents some of the main themes of Poppers first book in revised form, as well as discussions of many topics related to the theory of knowledge and other areas.
(Popper, 1969:27) Instead of inductive methodology for testing the scientific status of theories, he proposes the deductive methodology as an alternate methodology for empirical sciences.
Popper claims: "it must be possible for an empirical scientific system to be refuted [falsified] by experience(the experimental criterion).
Falsifiability and Falsification The distinction between the logical and the empirical criteria of theoretical system has proved to be important in Poppers philosophy."