Karl Popper

Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH, FRS, FBA (28 July 1902 17 September 1994) was an Austrian and British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century. and also wrote extensively on social and political philosophy Popper is known for repudiating the classical observationalist/inductivist account of scientific method by advancing empirical falsification instead for his opposition to the classical justificationist account of knowledge which he replaced with critical rationalism, "the first non justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy", and for his vigorous defense of liberal democracy and the principles of social criticism that he came to believe made a flourishing open society" possible.

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Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH, FRS, FBA (28 July 1902 - 17 September 1994) was an Austrian and British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century. and also wrote extensively on social and political philosophy Popper is known for repudiating the classical observationalist/inductivist account of scientific method by advancing empirical falsification instead for his opposition to the classical justificationist account of knowledge which he replaced with critical rationalism, "the first non justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy", and for his vigorous defense of liberal democracy and the principles of social criticism that he came to believe made a flourishing open society" possible.