Popper separated the context of refutation from the context of discovery.

Evidence

Popper broadened this outlook and brought the problem of scientific progress into the foreground, although this was restricted to the context of refutation'the epistemological and logical examination of theoretical hypotheses and the experimental testing of them, based on the principle of falsification, with the aim of achieving a closer approximation to the truth. He excluded the context of discovery’, the external influence of psychological and socio-economic factors, which he alleged to be irrelevant to the logic of scientific discovery. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 599

Categorization

• DEFINE: The refutation/discovery distinction is the central conceptual hinge of the whole positivism dispute.
• XREF: Echoes the sociology-of-knowledge question of whether social factors enter the logic of science. — connects to: Popper restricted scientific progress to the context of refutation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2417
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Popper restricted scientific progress to the context of refutation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2417