Karl Popper was an Austrian-British philosopher of science, born in Vienna in 1902 and died in London in 1994. He is best known for falsifiability, his proposed criterion for what makes a claim scientific, set out in his 1934 book Logik der Forschung. He fled Austria in 1937 as the political situation worsened for those of Jewish descent, eventually settling in Britain, where he taught at the London School of Economics from 1946 and was knighted in 1965. Carried under scientist alongside this atlas's mathematicians and physicians on the same basis: a contributor to the practice and self-understanding of science, not a laboratory researcher, whose falsifiability criterion is one of this atlas's new concept entries.
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Hypothesis, Concepts Popper's falsifiability criterion (The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 1934) treats a testable, falsifiable hypothesis as the defining unit of a genuinely scientific claim.
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Inductivism, Theories Popper argued that induction is never actually used in science: a universal statement can never be verified by any finite set of confirming observations, so he proposed falsifiability and deductive testing as the real logic of science in place of inductive confirmation.
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A pivotal modern figure through the falsifiability criterion, not the founder of the field, whose roots trace to Aristotle and the early modern philosophers of scientific method.
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View the Source2. Karl Popper (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Stephen Thornton, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1997SEP, Thornton, first pub. 1997Quote, SEP, Thornton, first pub. 1997
Popper accordingly rejects the view that induction is the characteristic method of scientific investigation and inference, substituting falsifiability in its place.
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Infobox institutions: Canterbury University College London School of Economics King's College London Darwin College, Cambridge
Member Of: London School of Economics, Infobox, institutions
Infobox institutions: Canterbury University College London School of Economics King's College London Darwin College, Cambridge
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