Sir Karl Raimund PopperCHFBAFRS (28 July 1902– 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher and professor. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century.
Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favour of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments. He used the black swan fallacy to discuss falsification. If the outcome of an experiment contradicts the theory, one should refrain from ad hoc manoeuvres that evade the contradiction merely by making it less falsifiable. Popper is also known 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."
"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve"
"We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell"
"Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite."
"No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude."
"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."
"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure"
"It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood."
"Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle / the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative."
"Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths"
"Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification."
"In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality."
Different from the psychological or religious use of the term, this empathetic paradox is informed by philosopher Karl Popper’s paradox of tolerance — the idea that the more intolerance a tolerant ...
Apparently, it is again time to make America great again. I’m not confident that will occur ... I hope they do that here ... I am a Democrat ... It brought us victory ... Indeed ... It reminds me of Karl Popper’s characterization of Plato in "The OpenSociety" ... nation ... 1.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, a movement arose in the west. One major premise of this movement was doubt ... Thus began the ‘Age of Reason’ ... But let me take this at face value ... (This was later adduced by Karl Popper in the ‘truth’ /’falsification binary).
The concept of the organisation is based on the philosophy propounded by philosopher Karl Popper in 1945, warning of autocratic enemies of freedom from both the right and left.
By Guy Sorman. Guy Sorman / Courtesy of Guy Sorman. Democracy is never, nowhere, a perfect political system ... As the British philosopher Karl Popper wrote ... Whatever the motives of their incarceration, this is not the way a democratic country should work ... .
In 1945, as Europe smouldered and the moral reckoning of the Holocaust lay ahead, Karl Popper pondered the paradox of tolerance ... Popper concluded it was on balance better ...
It proceeds by what Karl Popper called falsifiability — the ability to disprove rather than confirm a theory. According to Popper, for a theory to be classified as scientific, it must be able to be tested and conceivably proven false ... .
VideoLink...Host..Chris Hedges. Producer. ... Karl Popper, I have huge issues with Reinhold Niebuhr, and yet these intellectuals deeply have informed my own understanding of the world around me, although ideologically, I’m not always in tune with them ... ....
Host..Chris Hedges. Producer. ... Intro. ... Karl Popper, I have huge issues with Reinhold Niebuhr, and yet these intellectuals deeply have informed my own understanding of the world around me, although ideologically, I’m not always in tune with them.
FrancisWilkinson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering U.S. politics and policy ...Mike DeWine said last Monday ... Karl Popper’s “paradox of tolerance” notes that too much tolerance of illiberal conduct will eventually enable the intolerant to prevail.
11, 2024 ... As KarlMarx understood, “Those who cannot represent themselves will be represented.” ... Karl Popper in The OpenSociety and Its Enemies writes that the question is not how do you get good people to rule. Popper says this is the wrong question ... .
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