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Karl Popper's Beginning
Karl Popper was born July, 28 1902. Karl Popper was born in Vienna, Austria. He was an Austrian born British Philosopher of natural science who subscribed to metaphysics. He believed that knowledge evolves from experience of the mind. Karl Popper's father Simon Siegmund Karl Popper was a lawyer who had a great interest in classics and philosophy. His father helped developed his interest in social political issues. His mother Jenny schiff was of Hungarian descent. His family made a rapid climb. -
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Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science
Karl Popper's philosophy of science uses modus tolens as the central method of falsifying, or dis confirming scientific hypotheses. Popper's philosophy of science gave meaning to how science work. Karl Popper says"that the process of science no longer depends on the method." Popper gives and example of this. He states"if Socrates is a god then he is immortal. Socrates is not immortal therefore he is not a god. (https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/285/2015/08/Popper.pdf.) -
Karl Poppers's success and the Scientific Discovery
By 1929 Popper was qualified to teach mathematics and physics in secondary school. Popper published his first book in 1934 called "The Logic of Scientific Discovery. he then criticized psychologist, naturalism, and logical positivism. Popper also proposed hi theory of potential falsifiability as the criterion demarcating science from non-science. Nazism and the threat of Anschylus forced Popper to immigrate to New Zealand in 1937.
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Karl Popper's theory of Falsification.
In Conclusion of his Scientific contributions One concept to grasp was the necessity for falsifiability in scientific arguments. The question would be if a conclusion can be disproven doesn't that mean we aren't sure whether it is right? Even the most established scientific theories such as the law of gravity is an open question. How can we ever know anything? According to Popper's Falsification we may possibly think that an experiment start with a guess.
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Karl Popper's last days
Karl Popper died in September, 17 1994. The place he died was in Croydon, Great London. He died of complications of cancer, pneumonia and kidney failure.
