Karl Popper

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Austrian person British person epistemologist human philosopher philosopher of science political philosopher

Karl Popper was a 20th-century philosopher of science best known for his theory of falsifiability as the demarcation criterion between science and non-science.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Austrian person → British person → epistemologist → human → philosopher → philosopher of science → political philosopher →
almaMater	University of Vienna →
awardReceived	Lippincott Award → Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts →
birthDate	1902-07-28 →
birthPlace	Austria-Hungary → Vienna →
citizenship	Austria → United Kingdom →
deathDate	1994-09-17 →
deathPlace	London → United Kingdom →
doctoralAdvisor	Karl Bühler →
education	University of Vienna →
employer	London School of Economics → University of Canterbury → University of London →
era	20th-century philosophy →
ethnicGroup	Jewish descent →
familyName	Popper →
fieldOfWork	epistemology → logic → metaphysics → philosophy of science → political philosophy →
fullName	Karl Raimund Popper →
givenName	Karl →
influenced	Alan Musgrave → David Deutsch → George Soros → Hans Albert → Imre Lakatos → John W. N. Watkins → Paul Feyerabend → Thomas Kuhn → William W. Bartley →
influencedBy	Albert Einstein → Bertrand Russell → David Hume → Immanuel Kant → Vienna Circle →
knownFor	conjectures and refutations model of scientific progress → critical rationalism → critique of historicism → defense of open society → falsificationism → problem of demarcation → theory of falsifiability →
language	English → German →
mainInterest	demarcation problem → induction → political liberalism → scientific method →
marriageStart	1930 →
name	Karl Popper →
notableWork	Conjectures and Refutations → Objective Knowledge → The Logic of Scientific Discovery → The Open Society and Its Enemies → The Poverty of Historicism →
philosophicalSchool	analytic philosophy → critical rationalism →
positionHeld	Professor of Logic and Scientific Method →
religion	agnosticism →
residence	Christchurch → London → Vienna →
spouse	Josefine Anna Henninger →
theory	conjectures and refutations model of knowledge growth → falsifiability as demarcation criterion between science and non-science → three worlds ontology →

Referenced by (38)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Conjectures and Refutations → Conjectures and Refutations ("Karl R. Popper") → Objective Knowledge → The Logic of Scientific Discovery → The Open Society and Its Enemies → The Poverty of Historicism → The Poverty of Historicism ("Karl R. Popper") →	author
Josefine Anna Henninger → Vienna Circle → analytic philosophy → falsificationism →	associatedWith
Bertrand Russell → Charles Sanders Peirce → Karl Bühler → Ludwig Wittgenstein →	influenced
David Deutsch → Imre Lakatos → Paul Feyerabend →	influencedBy
Karl Popper ("Popper") → Karl Popper ("Popper") →	familyName
Karl Popper ("Karl Raimund Popper") → Karl Popper →	fullName
Josefine Anna Henninger →	accompanied
logical positivism →	criticizedBy
falsificationism →	developedBy
The Logic of Scientific Discovery →	EnglishTranslator
Mont Pelerin Society →	foundedBy
Mont Pelerin Society →	hasMember
Karl →	hasNotableBearer
Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts →	hasNotableRecipient
Karl Popper →	name
George Allen & Unwin →	notableAuthorPublished
Karl →	notableBearerExample
Josefine Anna Henninger →	partnerOf
Karl Popper ("critical rationalism") →	philosophicalSchool
Josefine Anna Henninger →	spouse
George Soros →	studiedUnder
Josefine Anna Henninger →	supported