Karl Popper
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Karl Popper 🇦🇹

Karl Raimund Popper
["Philosopher of Science", "Political Theorist", "Champion of Open Society"]
Born Jul 28, 1902 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Passed Away Sep 17, 1994 Croydon (London), United Kingdom
Lifespan 92 years old
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"No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white."

Archival Overview

Austrian-British philosopher who revolutionized the philosophy of science with the criterion of falsifiability in The Logic of Scientific Discovery and defended democracy in The Open Society and Its Enemies.

Biographical Record

Born in Vienna, Karl Popper (1902–1994) rejected the logical positivists' verificationism in 'Logik der Forschung' (1934), demonstrating that scientific theories can never be verified by induction, but can only be demarcated by whether they are falsifiable and open to empirical refutation.

Exiled to New Zealand during World War II, Popper penned 'The Open Society and Its Enemies' (1945), launching a searing critique of Plato, Hegel, and Marx as architects of totalitarian historicism, while championing liberal democracy, piecemeal social engineering, and fallibilism. He taught at the London School of Economics.

Key Life Milestones

1934

The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Logik der Forschung)

Formulated falsifiability as the demarcation criterion between science and non-science.

1945

The Open Society and Its Enemies

Published his two-volume defense of liberal democracy against totalitarian historicist philosophies.

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Lainzer Friedhof
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