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Early years
Karl Raimund Popper was born on 28 July 1902 in Vienna, even though he got to be knighted by the queen of England there is really not much about Sir Karl Popper as a youngster, other than he was of Jewish parents, his father was a Lawyer by profession and his mother introduced him into the music at a young age, his father also introduced him to Philosophy, he was a critical thinker from a young age.
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Education
The young Karl attended the local Realgymnasium, where he was unhappy with the standards of the teaching, and, after an illness he left to attend the University of Vienna in 1918, matriculating four years later. He lived in an era where Marxist Politics, Freudian and Einsteinian philosophies were emerging, and for a little while even got involved into the Marxist philosophies himself, but was Eistein who stroke him the most
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Major education
He obtained a primary school teaching diploma in 1925 and qualified to teach mathematics and physics in secondary school in 1929. He undertook a doctoral program with the department of psychology at the University of Vienna the under the supervision of Karl Bühler, one of the founder members of the Würzburg school of experimental psychology.
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Early writings
The annexation of Austria in 1938 became the catalyst which prompted Popper to refocus his writings on social and political philosophy. He published The Open Society and Its Enemies, his critique of totalitarianism, in 1945.In 1946 he moved to England to teach at the London School of Economics and became professor of logic and scientific method at the University of London in 1949.
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More writings
The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959), are now widely seen as pioneering classics in the field. However, he combined a combative personality with a zeal for self-aggrandisement that did little to endear him to professional colleagues. He was ill-at-ease in the philosophical milieu of post-war Britain which was, as he saw it, fixated with trivial linguistic concerns dictated by Wittgenstein, whom he considered his nemesis
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Opposition
Popper came under philosophical criticism for his prescriptive approach to science and his emphasis on the logic of falsification. This superseded in the eyes of many by the socio-historical approach taken by Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). In that work, Kuhn, who argued for the incommensurability of rival scientific paradigms, denied that science grows linearly through the accumulation of truths.
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Closeout
Popper was knighted in 1965, and retired from the University of London in 1969, remaining active as a writer, broadcaster and lecturer until his death in 1994. His major contributions included the idea of science being a tested and therefore open to the possibility of refutation, every test of a theory, whether resulting in its corroboration or falsification must not be as a settled issue but more testing should always be required.
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