Popper's reaction to this way of reading him is as follows:
My reaction to this reply would be regret at my continued failure to explain my main point with sufficient clarity. For the sole purpose of the elimination advo-
cated by all these inductivists was to establish as firmly as possible the surviving theory which, they thought, must be the true one (or, perhaps, only a highly probable one, in so far as we may not have fully succeeded in eliminating every
theory except the true one).