CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PRINCIPIE OF UNIFORMITARIANIS IN GEOLOGY, FROM THE THEORY OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PHILOSOPHER KART RAIMUND POPPER

Abstract

The uniformitarianism of James Hutton and Charles Lyell in geology have been historically considered as a confuse and few credible notion, scientifically speaking. At the same time, most of the analysis about the uniformitarianism it is base on an essentialy inductive focus, which apparently is the reason why they have result little promising for its epistemological clarification. Concerning the hypothesis that the epistemological issues of the uniformitarianism rise of thinking it like an inductive generalization, here it is attempted a different interpretation, not only based on affirmations of its proposers but also in the ideas of the philosopher K. R. Popper about the logical unsustained of the induction. In that way, the approximation to the uniformitarianism since the critical rationalism is a novelty proposal to the already existent. From this vision, its validity, character and epistemological status will stop  being confused.