Karl Popper

philosopher
(short summary)

• Falsifiability as the criterion of demarcation between science and non-science
• Critical rationalism as the method of scientific and social inquiry
• The open society as the ideal of a free and democratic society
• The three worlds of objective knowledge, subjective experience, and physical reality
• The evolutionary view of the growth of knowledge through trial and error.

Bio

Year of birth: 1902
Year of death: 1994
Nationality: Austrian-British
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Works

Important Works: The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934), The Open Society and Its Enemies(1945)
Contributions: Philosophy of science, Epistemology, Metaphysics
Key Ideas: falsifiability, critical rationalism
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