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The Birth of Karl Popper
Karl Raimund Popper was born July 28, 1902 in Vienna, Austria. At the age of 16, Popper dropped out of school to study as a guest student at the University of Vienna. In 1922, Popper completed his secondary school to become a full student at the University of Vienna. Of note, while a guest student, popper became a journeyman cabinetmaker and was a schoolteacher upon completion of his doctorate in 1928. -
Introduction of Falsifiability (1/2)
In 1959, Popper introduced the idea of falsifiability in his book The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Thornton). Inductive reasoning was the accepted process of proving theories and hypotheses. Popper repudiated this idea introducing falsifiability. “Every genuine test of a scientific theory, then, is logically an attempt to refute or to falsify it, and one genuine counter-instance falsifies the whole theory. (Thornton).” -
Introduction of Falsifiability (2/2)
This idea was that no scientific hypothesis or theory can ever be truly correct. Instead, he thought that all theories or hypotheses were falsifiable. In other words, a statement is only true up to a period of time that someone or something proves it to be false. That is what Popper believed to be true science. -
Death of Karl Popper
On September 17, 1994, Popper died at the age of 92 due to cancer, pneumonia, and kidney failure. -
Reference
Thornton, Stephen, "Karl Popper", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2019/entries/popper/
