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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Popper's experiment is an experiment proposed by the philosopher Karl Popper to test aspects of the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics. In fact...
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    pp. 119–45. ISBN 0-902308-56-4. POPPER, Karl, p. 3 of The Poverty of Historicism, italics in original Karl, Popper (2020). The Open Society and its Enemies...
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