Sir Karl Raimund Popper (British Philosopher)

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  • Sir Karl Raimund Popper was born on July 28, 1902 in Vienna, Austria

    Popper was born in 1902 in Vienna, Austria to Simon Siegmund Carl Popper and Jenny Schiff Popper.

  • In 1934 Popper published his first book Logik der Forschung (The Logic of Scientific Discovery), that would become his most famous works of Literature.

    In Karl Popper's first book he criticized psychologism, naturalism, inductionism, and logical positivism and proposed his theory of potential falsifiability as the criterion demarcating science from non-science.
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    Karl Popper Philosopher and Professor at the London School of Economics

    Karl Popper was a British philosopher of natural and social science. He believed that knowledge evolves from experience of the mind. Popper served as a professor of logic and scientific method until his retirement in 1969. Popper's principal contribution to the philosophy of science rests on his rejection of the inductive method in the empirical sciences. Traditional views of a scientific hypothesis may be tested and verified by obtaining the repeated outcome of substantiating observations.

  • K. Popper Conjectures and Refutations:

    Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge was one of Poppers primary works of literature. This book summarized his thoughts on the philosophy of science. He suggested that all scientific theories are by nature conjectures and inherently fallible, and the refutation to old theory is the paramount process of scientific discovery.

  • Karl Popper died in 1994

    Karl Popper die in Croydon, Greater London, England on September 17, 1994.

  • Karl Poppers Falsification YouTube Video:

    https://youtu.be/wf-sGqBsWv4