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      • Karl Popper believed that scientific knowledge is provisional – the best we can do at the moment. Popper is known for his attempt to refute the classical positivist account of the scientific method by replacing induction with the falsification principle.
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  3. www.simplypsychology.org › karl-popperKarl Popper: Theory of Falsification - Simply Psychology

    Jul 31, 2023 · Karl Popper believed that scientific knowledge is provisional – the best we can do at the moment. Popper is known for his attempt to refute the classical positivist account of the scientific method by replacing induction with the falsification principle.

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  4. plato.stanford.edu › entries › popperKarl Popper - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Nov 13, 1997 · 1. Life. 2. Backdrop to Popper’s Thought. 3. The Problem of Demarcation. 4. Basic Statements, Falsifiability and Convention. 5. The Growth of Human Knowledge. 6. Probability, Knowledge and Verisimilitude. 7. Objective Knowledge and The Three Worlds Ontology. 8. Social and Political Thought—The Critique of Historicism and Holism. 9.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Karl_PopperKarl Popper - Wikipedia

    Knowledge, for Popper, was objective, both in the sense that it is objectively true (or truthlike), and also in the sense that knowledge has an ontological status (i.e., knowledge as object) independent of the knowing subject (Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach, 1972).

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  7. libquotes.com › karl-popper › quotesKarl Popper Quotes about knowledge

    • For this, indeed, is the true source of our ignorance—the fact that our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
    • The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance.
    • Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.
    • For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the world in which we live, and the riddle of man's knowledge of that world.

  8. iep.utm.edu › pop-sciKarl Popper: Philosophy of Science - Internet Encyclopedia of ...

    Karl Popper (1902-1994) was one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century. He made significant contributions to debates concerning general scientific methodology and theory choice, the demarcation of science from non-science, the nature of probability and quantum mechanics, and the methodology of the social sciences.

  9. www.thecollector.com › karl-popper-falsificationKarl Popper on Falsification: Science vs. Pseudoscience

    Jul 30, 2023 · We will explore the idea of falsification, along with some of its implications: its use to distinguish between science and non-science, the idea of science as a process, and Popper’s skepticism regarding theoretical confirmation.

  10. www.britannica.com › biography › Karl-PopperKarl Popper | Biography, Books, Theory, & Facts | Britannica

    Sep 13, 2024 · Karl Popper, Austrian-born British philosopher of natural and social science who subscribed to anti-determinist metaphysics, believing that knowledge evolves from experience of the mind. Learn more about Popper’s life and career, including his various books.