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  2. Bold hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Bold hypothesis or bold conjecture is a concept in the philosophy of science of Karl Popper, first explained in his debut The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1935) and subsequently elaborated in writings such as Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963).

  3. Karl Popper - Wikipedia

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    Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FRS FBA [4] (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British [5] philosopher, academic and social commentator. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science , [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific ...

  4. The Logic of Scientific Discovery - Wikipedia

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    The Logic of Scientific Discovery is a 1959 book about the philosophy of science by the philosopher Karl Popper.Popper rewrote his book in English from the 1934 (imprint '1935') German original, titled Logik der Forschung.

  5. Critical rationalism - Wikipedia

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    Non-justificationism is also accepted by David Miller and Karl Popper. [9] However, not all proponents of critical rationalism oppose justificationism; it is supported most prominently by John W. N. Watkins. In justificationism, criticism consists of trying to show that a claim cannot be reduced to the authority or criteria that it appeals to.

  6. Problem of induction - Wikipedia

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    Karl Popper, a philosopher of science, sought to solve the problem of induction. [26] [27] He argued that science does not use induction, and induction is in fact a myth. [28] Instead, knowledge is created by conjecture and criticism. [29]

  7. Fallibilism - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Popper's experiment - Wikipedia

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    Popper's experiment of 1980 exploits couples of entangled particles, in order to put to the test Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. [6] [8]Indeed, Popper maintains: "I wish to suggest a crucial experiment to test whether knowledge alone is sufficient to create 'uncertainty' and, with it, scatter (as is contended under the Copenhagen interpretation), or whether it is the physical situation ...

  9. Philosophy of conspiracy theories - Wikipedia

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    The debate in analytic philosophy regarding conspiracy theories began in the mid-1990s when Charles Pigden challenged Karl Popper's position. [6] Popper, an influential philosopher of science, described what he called the "conspiracy theory of society", according to which history is a product of conspiracy, intended by some individuals or groups.