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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Thornton, Stephen (1 Januar 2015). Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Karl Popper (Winter 2015 ed.). ("Popper professes to be anti-conventionalist, and his commitment to the correspondence theory of truth places him firmly within the realist's camp.")
Hacohen, Malachi Haim. Karl Popper – The Formative Years, 1902–1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna. Cambridge University Press, 2000. pp. 83–85.
Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1970 (2nd ed.), p. 146.
Roger Penrose, Shadows of the Mind, Oxford University Press, 1994.
Miller, D. (1997). "Sir Karl Raimund Popper, C. H., F. B. A. 28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994.: Elected F.R.S. 1976". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 43: 369–310. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1997.0021.
Watkins, J. "Obituary of Karl Popper, 1902–1994". Proceedings of the British Academy. 94: 645–84.
Thornton, Stephen (1 Januar 2015). Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Karl Popper (Winter 2015 ed.).