Popper

Karl Popper (1902 - 1994)

  • Falsification

    Falsification
    Popper develops and publishes the concept of falsifiability in his book The Logic of Scientific Discovery. (Zalta)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-sGqBsWv4&ab_channel=BBCRadio4
  • Psychoanalysis

    Psychoanalysis
    Popper criticizes Fruedian psychoanalysis in his 1938 paper Constructions in Analysis. (Grant)
  • Historicism

    Historicism
    Popper criticizes historicism in his publication The Poverty of Historicism. (Popper)
  • Truthlikeness

    Truthlikeness
    Popper's book Conjectures and Refutations argues that theories should be accepted only if they have the highest degree of "Truthlikeness", a combination of truth and content. (Zalta)