1902 - 1994
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. 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 2,566,471 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Karl Popper is the 47th most popular philosopher (up from 48th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Austria (up from 15th 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, Karl Popper ranks 47 out of 1,089. Before him are Maria Montessori, Parmenides, Origen, Thomas More, Al-Farabi, and Michel Foucault. After him are Protagoras, Hannah Arendt, Henri Bergson, Plotinus, Zeno of Elea, and John Amos Comenius.
1870 - 1952
HPI: 84.74
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501 BC - 470 BC
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185 - 254
HPI: 84.50
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1478 - 1535
HPI: 84.47
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872 - 951
HPI: 84.41
Rank: 45
1926 - 1984
HPI: 84.34
Rank: 46
1902 - 1994
HPI: 84.29
Rank: 47
486 BC - 420 BC
HPI: 84.08
Rank: 48
1906 - 1975
HPI: 84.07
Rank: 49
1859 - 1941
HPI: 83.96
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203 - 270
HPI: 83.77
Rank: 51
490 BC - 425 BC
HPI: 83.73
Rank: 52
1592 - 1670
HPI: 83.39
Rank: 53
Among people born in 1902, Karl Popper ranks 2. Before him is Charles Lindbergh. After him are Ruhollah Khomeini, Erik Erikson, John Steinbeck, Carl Rogers, Leni Riefenstahl, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Ray Kroc, Paul Dirac, Talcott Parsons, and Halldór Laxness. 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, Erik Erikson, Eugène Ionesco, Erich Honecker, Elias Canetti, Linus Pauling, Ayrton Senna, and Andrei Chikatilo.
1902 - 1974
HPI: 85.64
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1902 - 1994
HPI: 84.29
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1902 - 1989
HPI: 83.68
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1902 - 1994
HPI: 81.41
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1902 - 1968
HPI: 80.60
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1902 - 1987
HPI: 80.56
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1902 - 2003
HPI: 80.52
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1902 - 1991
HPI: 79.87
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1902 - 1984
HPI: 79.80
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1902 - 1984
HPI: 79.01
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1902 - 1979
HPI: 78.58
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1902 - 1998
HPI: 78.39
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1912 - 1994
HPI: 86.86
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1902 - 1994
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1913 - 1994
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1920 - 1994
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1929 - 1994
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1902 - 1994
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1909 - 1994
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1912 - 1994
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1905 - 1994
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1901 - 1994
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1960 - 1994
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1936 - 1994
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Among people born in Austria, Karl Popper ranks 14 out of 1,075. Before him are Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830), Franz Liszt (1811), Gustav Klimt (1862), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889), Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1741), and Stefan Zweig (1881). After him are Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (1459), Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947), Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863), Alfred Adler (1870), Johann Strauss II (1825), and Erwin Schrödinger (1887).
1830 - 1916
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1811 - 1886
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1862 - 1918
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1889 - 1951
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1741 - 1790
HPI: 84.79
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1881 - 1942
HPI: 84.77
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1902 - 1994
HPI: 84.29
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1459 - 1519
HPI: 84.14
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1947 - Present
HPI: 83.95
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1863 - 1914
HPI: 83.71
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1870 - 1937
HPI: 83.57
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1825 - 1899
HPI: 83.54
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1887 - 1961
HPI: 83.20
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Among philosophers born in Austria, Karl Popper ranks 2. Before him are Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889). After him are Emil Cioran (1911), Martin Buber (1878), Josef Breuer (1842), Paul Feyerabend (1924), Ivan Illich (1926), Otto Weininger (1880), Alfred Schütz (1899), Otto Neurath (1882), André Gorz (1923), and Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757).
1889 - 1951
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1902 - 1994
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1911 - 1995
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1878 - 1965
HPI: 78.74
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1842 - 1925
HPI: 76.68
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1924 - 1994
HPI: 74.86
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1926 - 2002
HPI: 74.29
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1880 - 1903
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 8
1899 - 1959
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 9
1882 - 1945
HPI: 70.29
Rank: 10
1923 - 2007
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 11
1757 - 1823
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 12