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)
In the intellectual stakes, this guy makes Forrest Gump look like KarlPopper.
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Austrian philosopher KarlPopper 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 KarlPopper -the chancellor's favourite political thinker.
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Bertrand Russell, KarlPopper and Charles Darwin.
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'The spirit of KarlPopper is going to be on your back henceforth.'
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KarlPopper'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 KarlPopper, 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 KarlPopper, 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 KarlPopper's writings on totalitarianism and scientific falsifiability.