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Karl Popper

1902 - 1994

Karl Popper

Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-born 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. Popper was opposed to the classical justificationist account of knowledge, which he replaced with critical rationalism, namely "the first non-justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy".In political discourse, he is known for his vigorous defence of liberal democracy and the principles of social criticism that he believed made a flourishing open society possible. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Popper has received more than 2,395,425 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia making him the 50th most popular philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Karl Popper ranks 48 out of 1,005. Before him are Al-Farabi, Michel de Montaigne, Origen, Al-Ghazali, John Amos Comenius, and Hannah Arendt. After him are Parmenides, Nasreddin, Henri Bergson, Plotinus, Lucretius, and Mikhail Bakunin.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Karl Popper ranks 15 out of 799. Before him are Gustav Klimt (1862), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889), Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (1459), Stefan Zweig (1881), Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863), and Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947). After him are Erwin Schrödinger (1887), Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1741), Niki Lauda (1949), Johann Strauss II (1825), 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 Rudolf Steiner (1861), Emil Cioran (1911), Martin Buber (1878), Josef Breuer (1842), Paul Feyerabend (1924), Otto Weininger (1880), Ivan Illich (1926), Alfred Schütz (1899), Otto Neurath (1882), and André Gorz (1923).

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