Philosopher · Twentieth century · Austria
Karl Popper
1902–1994
Austrian born British thinker who redrew the line between science and nonsense: a theory is scientific only if it can be proven wrong. His Open Society attacked historicism and totalitarian thought. He lived 1902 to 1994.
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- Born
- 1902, Vienna, Austria.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Karl Popper
- Died
- 1994, London, England.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Karl Popper
- School
- Critical rationalism; philosophy of science.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Karl Popper
- Known for
- Falsifiability as the mark of science, and The Open Society and Its Enemies of 1945.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Karl Popper
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