Karl Popper
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.
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Background
- Born in
- Vienna
- Educated at
- University of ViennaUniversity of Cambridge
- Awards
- 🏆 Catalonia International Prize🏆 Austrian Decoration for Science and Art🏆 Otto Hahn Peace Medal🏆 Montyon Prize🏆 Goethe Medal
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Moritz Schlick🎓 Karl Bühler
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Charles Leonard Hamblin
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"In speaking of sociological laws or natural laws of social life I have in mind such laws as are formulated by modern economic theories, for instance, the theory of international trade, or the theory o…"
"Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you."
"Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we reali…"
"Although I consider our political world to be the best of which we have any historical knowledge, we should beware of attributing this fact to democracy or to freedom. Freedom is not a supplier who de…"
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1902
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