Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FBA FRS[6] (28 Julie 1902 – 17 September 1994) wis an Austrick-Breetish filosofer an professor.[7][8][9] He is generally regairdot as ane o the greatest filosofers o science o the 20t century.[10][11][12]
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Sir Karl Popper |
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 Karl Popper c. 1980s |
Born | Karl Raimund Popper 28 Julie 1902(1902-07-28) Vienna, Austrick-Hungary |
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Dee'd | 17 September 1994(1994-09-17) (aged 92) Lunnon, Ingland, U.K. |
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Naitionality | Austrick Breetish |
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Alma mater | Varsity o Vienna |
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Era | 20t-century filosofie |
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Region | Wastren filosofie |
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Notable ideas |
- Bauld hypothesis
- Creetical raitionalism
- Falsificationism
- Evolutionary trial an error view o the growth o knawledge
- Propensity interpretation
- Open society
- Cosmological pluralism
- Modified essentialism
- Axiomatisation o probability
- Active Darwinism
- Spearhead model o evolution
- Objective hermeneutics
- The paradox o tolerance
- Creetical dualism (o facts an staundarts)
- Experimental corroboration as an indicator o verisimilitude/truthlikeness
- Basissatz (basic statement)
- Popper's experiment
- The historicism–historism distinction
- Negative utilitarianism
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Influenced
- Virtually all philosophy of science since the 1930s
- Hayek
- Friedman
- Lakatos
- Feyerabend
- Soros
- Miller
- Agassi
- Bartley
- Gombrich
- Jarvie
- Dahrendorf
- Levinson
- Gellner
- Munz
- Magee
- Lorenz
- Shearmur
- Medawar
- Dimitrakos
- Albert
- Gellner
- Kuhn[4]
- Verhofstadt
- Taleb
- Schmidt
- Gillies
- Deutsch
- Eccles
- Penrose[5]
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