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Meanings of karl popper in English
British philosopher (born in Austria) who argued that scientific theories can never be proved to be true, but are tested by attempts to falsify them (1902-1994)
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Examples for "popper"
Examples for "popper"
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PHONSIE: You bet I have, and my popper put them there, too.
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Oh, those sports trousers with the popper buttons are back, are they?
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In my room, I smoke a popper and stare at my cellphone.
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One of you boys go rummage the store room for the corn popper.
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If you get through this bad day, how about a petal popper: 15.
Usage of karl popper in English
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In the intellectual stakes, this guy makes Forrest Gump look like Karl Popper.
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Austrian philosopher Karl Popper critiqued this notion in his The Poverty of Historicism in 1957.
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For good measure, he even threw in Austrian-born philosopher Karl Popper -the chancellor's favourite political thinker.
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Bertrand Russell, Karl Popper and Charles Darwin.
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'The spirit of Karl Popper is going to be on your back henceforth.'
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Karl Popper's falsification criterion is more modest -and lack of falsification is what string theory has always had.
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Just the week before, I had interviewed Karl Popper, the Austrian-born philosopher, then in the last years of his life.
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Had I told him Freddie Ayer was sitting next to us, or Karl Popper, he 'd have known who I was talking about.
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This is a traditional liberal individualist objection to Marx and it is found most coherently expressed in Karl Popper's writings on totalitarianism and scientific falsifiability.