Karl Popper vs. Moritz Schlick
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Karl Popper
1902 – 1994
Sir Karl Raimund Popper 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 be scrutinised with decisive experiments.
"... the fight against suffering must be considered a duty, while the right to care for the happiness of others must be considered a privilege confined to the cl…"
Moritz Schlick
1882 – 1936
Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. He was murdered by a former student, Johann Nelböck, in 1936.
"Philosophy is not a system of propositions, and not a science."
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