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Karl Popper

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Noun1.Karl Popper - British philosopher (born in Austria) who argued that scientific theories can never be proved to be true, but are tested by attempts to falsify them (1902-1994)
philosopher - a specialist in philosophy


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Or, as Karl Popper put it, truth is never definitive and error is always probable.
Those appearing in the against camp include Carl Stumpf, Edmund Husserl, Vladimir Lenin, Max Planck, Albert Einstein (who changed his mind on Mach's thoughts on methodology), Karl Popper, Michael Polanyi, and Mario Bunge.
00 Hardcover BD163 Karl Popper (1902-1944) is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century.
 
 
 
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