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Karl Popper

1902 - 1994

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Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favour of empirical falsification made possible by his falsifiability criterion, and for founding the Department of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. According to Popper, a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can (and should) be scrutinised with decisive experiments. Popper was opposed to the classical justificationist account of knowledge, which he replaced with "the first non-justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy", namely critical rationalism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Popper is the 58th most popular philosopher (down from 56th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Austria (down from 17th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Philosopher.

Karl Popper is most famous for his idea of falsification. He argued that for a theory to be scientific, it must be falsifiable, or capable of being proven false.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Karl Popper ranks 58 out of 1,267. Before him are Swami Vivekananda, Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, Mikhail Bakunin, Henri Bergson, and Plotinus. After him are Ramakrishna, Zeno of Elea, Zhuang Zhou, Epictetus, Thomas More, and Johann Gottlieb Fichte.

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Among people born in 1902, Karl Popper ranks 3. Before him are Ruhollah Khomeini, and Charles Lindbergh. After him are Georgy Malenkov, Erik Erikson, Leni Riefenstahl, John Steinbeck, Carl Rogers, Halldór Laxness, Paul Dirac, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Eugene Wigner. Among people deceased in 1994, Karl Popper ranks 4. Before him are Kim Il-sung, Ayrton Senna, and Richard Nixon. After him are Charles Bukowski, Erich Honecker, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Eugène Ionesco, Elias Canetti, Erik Erikson, Linus Pauling, and Burt Lancaster.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Karl Popper ranks 22 out of 1,424. Before him are Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (1459), Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (1858), Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863), Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1741), Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (1791), and Maximilian I of Mexico (1832). After him are Charles I of Austria (1887), Ferdinand I of Austria (1793), Klara Hitler (1860), Niki Lauda (1949), Alfred Adler (1870), and Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1685).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Austria

Among philosophers born in Austria, Karl Popper ranks 2. Before him are Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889). After him are Martin Buber (1878), Paul Feyerabend (1924), Josef Breuer (1842), Ivan Illich (1926), Otto Weininger (1880), Alfred Schütz (1899), Otto Neurath (1882), Jean Améry (1912), Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757), and André Gorz (1923).

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