He does not argue that any such conclusions are therefore true, or that this describes the actual methods of any particular scientist.[citation needed] Rather, it is recommended as an essential principle of methodology that, if enacted by a system or community, will lead to slow but steady progress of a sort (relative to how well the system or community enacts the method). It has been suggested that Popper's ideas are often mistaken for a hard logical account of truth because of the historical co-incidence of their appearing at the same time as logical positivism, the followers of which mistook his aims for their own. COUNT 4
QSN1 What other contemporaneous school of thought is often confused with Popper's own contributions? ANS1 logical positivism QSN2 Popper has stressed that his description of scientific methodology should not be mistaken to apply to whom? ANS2 any particular scientist QSN3 At what level does Popper indicate his view of scientific methodology applies? ANS3 system or community QSN4 What kind of progress does science make given the methodology Popper describes? ANS4 slow but steady