Context: 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.

Question: What other contemporaneous school of thought is often confused with Popper's own contributions?
Answer: logical positivism

Question: Popper has stressed that his description of scientific methodology should not be mistaken to apply to whom?
Answer: any particular scientist

Question: At what level does Popper indicate his view of scientific methodology applies?
Answer: system or community

Question: What kind of progress does science make given the methodology Popper describes?
Answer: slow but steady

Question: What does Popper argue is therefore true?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Whose ideas are a logical account of truth?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did not appear at the same time as Popper's ideas?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did the followers of logical positivism mistake as opposite to their own?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What kind of progress does science make if it does not use Popper's methodology?
Answer: Unanswerable