Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FRS FBA (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the...
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Historicism (section Karl Popper)
2307/2578970. ISSN 0037-7732. JSTOR 2578970. POPPER, Karl, p. 3 of The Poverty of Historicism, italics in original Karl, Popper (2020). The Open Society and its Enemies...
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Logical positivism (section Karl Popper)
among leading philosophers, notably from Willard van Orman Quine and Karl Popper, and even from within the movement, from Carl Hempel. These problems...
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International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper engaged in a debate that circled around three main areas of disagreement...
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Occam's razor (section Karl Popper)
variance) and underfitting (associated with lower variance but higher bias). Karl Popper argues that a preference for simple theories need not appeal to practical...
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Propensity probability (section Karl Popper)
proposed by philosopher Karl Popper, who had only slight acquaintance with the writings of Charles S. Peirce, however. Popper noted that the outcome of...
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developed during World War II by the Austrian-born British philosopher Karl Popper. Popper saw it as part of a historical continuum reaching from the organic...
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Falsifiability (redirect from Popper's criterion)
scientific theories and hypotheses, introduced by the philosopher of science Karl Popper in his book The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934). A theory or hypothesis...
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Paradox of tolerance (category Karl Popper)
principle of tolerance. This paradox was articulated by philosopher Karl Popper in The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), where he argued that a truly...
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Naturalism (philosophy) (section Karl Popper)
empirical method. — Karl R. Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, (Routledge, 2002), pp. 52–53, ISBN 0-415-27844-9. Popper instead proposed that...
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Hippocratic Oath for scientists (section Karl Popper)
by various prominent members of the scientific community, including Karl Popper, Joseph Rotblat and John Sulston. Research by the American Association...
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Debate (redirect from Karl Popper debate)
Debate is a process that involves formal discourse, discussion, and oral addresses on a particular topic or collection of topics, often with a moderator...
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Leo Strauss (section Strauss and Karl Popper)
Plato is not "a blueprint for regime reform" (a play on words from Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies, which attacks The Republic for being...
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Positivism (redirect from Popper legend)
methods. This contributed to what Karl Popper termed the "Popper Legend", a misconception among critics and admirers of Popper that he was, or identified himself...
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deixis as a linguistic phenomenon. He was the dissertation advisor of Karl Popper. Bühler was born in Meckesheim, Baden. In 1899 he started medical school...
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the scientific method. During the mid-20th century, the philosopher Karl Popper emphasized the criterion of falsifiability to distinguish science from...
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Popper's experiment is an experiment proposed by the philosopher Karl Popper to test aspects of the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics. In fact...
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to foundationalism. Theorists, following Austrian-British philosopher Karl Popper, may also refer to fallibilism as the notion that knowledge might turn...
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rejected Christianity at that point.: 44f He went on to study under Sir Karl Popper at the London School of Economics, where he completed his PhD in 1962...
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The Open Society and Its Enemies (category Books by Karl Popper)
and Its Enemies is a work on political philosophy by the philosopher Karl Popper, in which the author presents a defence of the open society against its...
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Problem of induction (category Karl Popper)
"the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy". In contrast, Karl Popper's critical rationalism claimed that inductive justifications are never...
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positivism. One of the first thinkers to criticize logical positivism was Karl Popper. He advanced falsification in lieu of the logical positivist idea of...
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Popper's three worlds is a way of looking at and understanding reality, developed by the British philosopher Karl Popper in many lectures and books, for...
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trilemma of "dogmatism versus infinite regress versus psychologism" used by Karl Popper. It is a reference to the problem of "bootstrapping", based on the story...
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Biographical". nobelprize.org. Karl Popper and Konrad Lorenz, Die Zukunft ist offen: das Altenberger Gespräch, mit den Texten des Wiener Popper-Symposiums, ed. Franz...
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Verisimilitude (category Karl Popper)
false theory. This problem was central to the philosophy of Karl Popper, largely because Popper was among the first to affirm that truth is the aim of scientific...
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philosophical statements' meaningfulness and objectively assessing them. Karl Popper criticized logical positivism and helped establish a modern set of standards...
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery (category Books by Karl Popper)
is a 1959 book about the philosophy of science by the philosopher Karl Popper. Popper rewrote his book in English from the 1934 (imprint '1935') German...
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Rudolf Carnap), the ordinary language philosophers, W. V. O. Quine, and Karl Popper. After the decline of logical positivism, Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and...
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and Marxian dialectics has been criticized by philosophers, such as Karl Popper and Mario Bunge, who considered it unscientific. Dialectic implies a...
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