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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 4,057,677 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). Karl Popper is the 52nd most popular philosopher (down from 47th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Austria 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 52 out of 1,081. Before him are Origen, Al-Farabi, Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Amos Comenius, Zeno of Elea, and Empedocles. After him are Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, Lucretius, Plotinus, Henri Bergson, and Anaxagoras.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Karl Popper ranks 1. After him are Charles Lindbergh, Ruhollah Khomeini, Erik Erikson, Carl Rogers, Paul Dirac, Leni Riefenstahl, Georgy Malenkov, John Steinbeck, Isaac Bashevis Singer, 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, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Charles Bukowski, Erik Erikson, Erich Honecker, Elias Canetti, Eugène Ionesco, Linus Pauling, Ayrton Senna, and Burt Lancaster.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Karl Popper ranks 14 out of 1,237. Before him are Maria Theresa (1717), Franz Liszt (1811), Gustav Klimt (1862), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889), Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947), and Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863). After him are Stefan Zweig (1881), Erwin Schrödinger (1887), Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1685), Alfred Adler (1870), Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (1459), and Charles I of Austria (1887).

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

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