Karl Popper
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Karl Popper was an Austrian-British philosopher famous for developing falsificationism, a theory about how science works based on the idea that scientific claims should be testable and potentially provable wrong. He is also known for criticizing Plato, Hegel, and Marx as defenders of totalitarianism, and for promoting the concept of an "open society" as an alternative to their views.
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- 28 July 1902
- Died
- 17 September 1994
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- 90
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- Logik der Forschung
- The open society and its enemies
- Popper und die Menschenrechte
- Bemerkungen zu Theorie und Praxis des demokratischen Staates
- La Logique de la découverte scientifique
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Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH, FRS, FBA (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austro-British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century; he also wrote extensively on social and political philosophy. Popper is known for his attempt to repudiate the classical observationalist / inductivist account of scientific method by advancing empirical falsification <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Karl+
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Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favour of empirical falsification made possible by his falsifiability criterion, and for founding the Department of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. According to Popper, a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can (and should) be scrutinised with decisive experiments. Popper was opposed to the classical justificationist account of knowledge, which he replaced with "the first non-justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy", namely critical rationalism.
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