Children “Easily” Solving Family Problems
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With an account, you can revise, criticize, and comment on ideas.Looking at it in a Popperian way, I think problem solving is a lot like doing science.
I don’t think it’s “a lot like” doing science – the underlying logic is the same, science being just one particular instance of problem solving. This is then acknowledged in the subsequent sentence:
[...] Popper’s epistemology applies to all problem solving, not just to science.
So why mention science if you’re just going to generalize the restriction away regardless?
I just found this related Popper quote underscoring my point:
Truth is hard to come by. It needs both ingenuity in criticizing old theories, and ingenuity in the imaginative invention of new theories. This is so not only in the sciences, but in all fields.