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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Popper has received more than 4,128,394 page views. His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 85 in 2019). Karl Popper is the 56th most popular philosopher (down from 52nd in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Austria (down from 14th 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 56 out of 1,267. Before him are Hannah Arendt, Anaxagoras, Plotinus, Michel Foucault, Thomas More, and Henri Bergson. After him are Zeno of Elea, Mikhail Bakunin, Epictetus, Herbert Spencer, Michel de Montaigne, and Ibn Arabi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Karl Popper ranks 2. Before him is Ruhollah Khomeini. After him are Charles Lindbergh, Georgy Malenkov, Paul Dirac, Leni Riefenstahl, Erik Erikson, Carl Rogers, John Steinbeck, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Halldór Laxness, and Talcott Parsons. Among people deceased in 1994, Karl Popper ranks 3. Before him are Richard Nixon, and Kim Il-sung. After him are Charles Bukowski, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Erich Honecker, Eugène Ionesco, Elias Canetti, Erik Erikson, Ayrton Senna, Linus Pauling, and Giulietta Masina.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Karl Popper ranks 17 out of 1,424. Before him are Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (1791), Stefan Zweig (1881), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889), Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863), Erwin Schrödinger (1887), and Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1741). After him are Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (1459), Alfred Adler (1870), Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1685), Klara Hitler (1860), Romy Schneider (1938), and Ferdinand I of Austria (1793).

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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), Josef Breuer (1842), Paul Feyerabend (1924), Ivan Illich (1926), Otto Weininger (1880), Alfred Schütz (1899), Otto Neurath (1882), Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757), André Gorz (1923), and Jean Améry (1912).

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