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One of the earliest formulations of "paradox of tolerance" is given in the notes of Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies in 1945. Popper raises the paradox in the chapter notes regarding "The Principle of Leadership", connecting the paradox to his refutation of Plato's defense of "benevolent despotism". In the main text, Popper ...
Karl Popper on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Popper, K. R. "Natural Selection and the Emergence of Mind", 1977. The Karl Popper Web Archived 3 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine; Sir Karl R. Popper in Prague, May 1994 [Archived by Wayback Machine] Synopsis and background of The poverty of historicism "A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper ...
The founder of critical rationalism: Karl Popper. In the mid-twentieth century, several important philosophers began to critique the foundations of logical positivism.In his work The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934), Karl Popper, the founder of critical rationalism, argued that scientific knowledge grows from falsifying conjectures rather than any inductive principle and that ...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Problem of induction at the Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project; Probability and Hume's Inductive Scepticism at the Wayback Machine (archived 27 October 2009) (1973) by David Stove; Discovering Karl Popper by Peter Singer; The Warrant of Induction by D. H. Mellor; Hume and the Problem of Induction
Karl Popper, a graduate of the University of Vienna, was an outspoken critic of the logical positivist movement from its inception. In Logik der Forschung (1934, published in English in 1959 as The Logic of Scientific Discovery ) he attacked verificationism directly, contending that the problem of induction renders it impossible for scientific ...
Falsifiability (or refutability) is a deductive standard of evaluation of scientific theories and hypotheses, introduced by the philosopher of science Karl Popper in his book The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934). [B] A theory or hypothesis is falsifiable if it can be logically contradicted by an empirical test.
Karl Popper considered demarcation as a major problem of the philosophy of science. Popper articulates the problem of demarcation as: Popper articulates the problem of demarcation as: The problem of finding a criterion which would enable us to distinguish between the empirical sciences on the one hand, and mathematics and logic as well as ...
A later propensity theory was proposed [6] by philosopher Karl Popper, who had only slight acquaintance with the writings of Charles S. Peirce, however. [2] [3] Popper noted that the outcome of a physical experiment is produced by a certain set of "generating conditions". When we repeat an experiment, as the saying goes, we really perform ...