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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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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Noble lie (section Karl Popper)
question by the Platonic analysis. In The Open Society and Its Enemies, Karl Popper remarks, "It is hard to understand why those of Plato's commentators...
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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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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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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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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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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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Paradox of tolerance (category Karl Popper)
dominate, eliminating the tolerant and the practice of tolerance with them. Karl Popper describes the paradox as arising from the fact that, in order to maintain...
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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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