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	The Karl Popper Web
		(Popper loved Mozart and Bach, and took great pleasure in composing his own music.) The common idea that Popper neglected to consider whether Falsificationism itself is falsifiable is already scotched here.
		Popper was in fact fascinated by probability and even produced his own axiomatisation of the probability calculus.
		The great philosophy and science writers (Darwin, Russell, Popper, Einstein, Dawkins, Deutsch) are all characterized by their keenness to communicate to all intelligent people, not simply to their co-specialists.
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		For the last few months I didn't had the time to work on RSS Popper.
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	Karl Popper
		Popper, then, is an historical indeterminist, insofar as he holds that history does not evolve in accordance with intrinsic laws or principles, that in the absence of such laws and principles unconditional prediction in the social sciences is an impossibility, and that there is no such thing as historical necessity.
		Popper's arguments against holism, and in particular his arguments against the propriety of large-scale planning of social structures, are interconnected with his demonstration of the logical shortcomings of the presuppositions of historicism.
		Popper himself is fond of citing, as an example of such a critical test, the resolution, by Adams and Leverrier, of the problem which the anomalous orbit of Uranus posed for nineteenth century astronomers.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /archives/spr2000/entries/popper (8107 words)

	Karl Popper - MSN Encarta
		Karl Raimund Popper was born in Vienna and received a Ph.D. degree from Vienna University in 1928.
		Although not a member of the so-called Vienna school of philosophy (see Positivism), Popper was sympathetic with their scientific attitude, but critical of certain of their beliefs.
		Popper's most significant contribution to the philosophy of science was his characterization of the scientific method.
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	Karl Popper (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		For his part, Popper became increasingly critical of the main tenets of logical positivism, especially of what he considered to be its misplaced focus on the theory of meaning in philosophy and upon verification in scientific methodology, and reveled in the title ‘the official opposition’ which was bestowed upon him by Neurath.
		Popper was initially uneasy with the concept of truth, and in his earliest writings he avoided asserting that a theory which is corroborated is true — for clearly if every theory is an open-ended hypothesis, as he maintains, then ipso facto it has to be at least potentially false.
		Popper's distinction between the logic of falsifiability and its applied methodology does not in the end do full justice to the fact that all high-level theories grow and live despite the existence of anomalies (i.e., events/phenomena which are incompatible with the theories).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/popper (8080 words)

	Sir Karl Popper (1902--93).
		Popper concluded that all we know is but "a woven web of guesses," that while empirical generalizations may not be verifiable, they are, at least, falsifable.
		Popper's philosophy allows for, and, indeed, calls for "passion or imagination or creative intuition; and it condemns as 'scientism' the notion that science gives us certain knowledge and might even be able one day to give us settled answers to all our legitimate questions."9
		In light of Popper's philosophy, what is needed is a kind of society which is adapted to problem-solving, a kind of society which "calls for the bold propounding of trial solutions which are then subjected to criticism and error-elimination;" this cannot be a dictatorship; it can only be a democracy with free institutions.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Popper.htm (886 words)

	John Popper: Blues Traveler with a harp
		Popper breaks little or no new ground on this record in terms of either the melodic content or the basic structure of his solos.
		That said, Popper's instrumental technique is exceptionally good, especially in terms of his breathing (which is very fluid and quick) and his left hand, the latter being the key factor in moving the harmonica rapidly and precisely.
		Every aspect of Popper's musical output, from his lyrics to his song structures, reveals a person who is emotional, intelligent, and extremely talkative, a guy who has so much to say that he can barely squeeze it into the available space before the song ends.
	www.rootsworld.com /freereed/popper.html (1228 words)

	The Chronicle: 7/26/2002: Giving Karl Popper His Propers
		Popper's rise in the canon, he says, is evident not only among scholars in New Zealand but also in Australia, Britain, the Middle East, and North America, and in the wider political culture as well.
		Popper, 13 years younger than the eminent philosopher, had arrived from London that balmy evening, he later wrote in his memoir, Unended Quest, "to provoke Wittgenstein into defending the view that there are no philosophical problems, and to fight him on this issue." He succeeded in provoking him.
		Popper, on the other hand, believed that scientists ought to look for examples that are apparently inconsistent with a theory; "falsification," he held, not "induction," is the only credible basis for scientific inquiry.
	chronicle.com /free/v48/i46/46a01601.htm (2055 words)

	The Quack-Files: Karl Popper's Falsification Principle
		Popper did not deny that Freud and Marx were interesting and innovatory as moralists or social critics; what he denied fervently, as Raphael notes, was the claim, as dear to them as to their followers, that they were scientists.
		Popper maintained that unless the problem of induction could be resolved (and, he insisted, it could never be), positivism's Verification Principle had no warrant to ascribe meaning to science.
		Popper argued that science did not proceed by showing why, or that, certain things happened; it established that - if a theory were valid - certain things could not happen.
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	Karl Popper. Articles by Rafe Champion
		Popper's theory of objective knowledge has the potential to advance the discussion of many issues that has stalled due to the traditional subjectivist approach.
		Popper had quite a lot to say about education, mostly in scattered comments and notes.
		This is a commentary on four papers prepared for the Popper session at the 1989 meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in Christchurch, New Zealand.
	www.the-rathouse.com /writingsonpopper.html (676 words)

	Sir Karl Popper
		Popper's own critique of Marx and Freud as unfalsifiable was a classic study, and the salutary influence of the principle in discussion of psychics or astrology is occasionally seen.
		Popper, however, misunderstands the rest of Fries's theory, accusing him of "psychologism" in the sense that Fries supposedly relies on a psychological or subjective sense of certainty to justify instances of immediate knowledge.
		Popper's mistake, in criticizing the Postivists, was to accept a Positivist, and Empiricist, premise, that we only have access to perceptions, to contents of the mind, not to the objects themselves.
	www.friesian.com /popper.htm (1296 words)

	KLI Theory Lab - Authors - Karl R. Popper
		Popper, K.R. Campbell on the evolutionary theory of knowledge.
		Popper, K.R. Of Clouds and Clocks: An Approach to the Problem of Rationality and the Freedom of Man. St Louis, MO: Washington University Press.
		Popper, K.R. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge.
	www.kli.ac.at /theorylab/AuthPage/P/PopperKR.html (255 words)

	Philosophers : Karl Popper
		Karl Raimund Popper was born on 28 July 1902 in Vienna.
		His father was a lawyer by profession, who was interested in the classics and in philosophy, and communicated to his son an interest in social and political issues.
		From this point on Popper's reputation and stature as a philosopher of science and social thinker grew enormously, and he continued to write prolifically - a number of his works, particularly The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959), are now universally recognised as classics in the field.
	www.trincoll.edu /depts/phil/philo/phils/popper.html (756 words)

	Popper's Philosophy of Science
		Popper shows that we cannot prove that a theory is true, but we can certainly show that a prediction is false.
		The first criterion Popper requires for a set of statements to be admitted as a theory is that it must be internally consistent from a formal, logical point of view.
		A "good reason" may be, for instance: replacement of the hypothesis by another which is better testable; or the falsification of one of the consequences of the hypothesis.
	www.xenodochy.org /article/popper.html (2718 words)

	Martin Gardner "A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper," 2001
		Popper's critics insist that "corroboration" is a form of induction, and Popper has simply sneaked induction in through a back door by giving it a new name.
		Popper actually believed that the movement known as logical positivism, of which Carnap was leader, had expired because he, Popper, had single-handedly killed it!
		For vigorous criticism of Popper, see David Stove's Popper and After: Four Modern Irrationalists (the other three are Imre Lakatos, Thomas Kuhn, and Paul Feyerabend), and Stove's chapter on Popper in his posthumous Against the Idols of the Age (1999) edited by Roger Kimball.
	www.stephenjaygould.org /ctrl/gardner_popper.html (1864 words)

	Karl Popper
		Popper’s reputation and stature as a philosopher of science and social thinker grew enormously, and he continued to write
		Popper is unusual amongst contemporary philosophers in that he accepts the validity of the
		Popper’s critique of both historicism and holism is balanced, on the positive side, by his strong defence of the open society, the
	facstaff.uww.edu /mohanp/popper.html (3893 words)

	Amazon.com: The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Routledge Classics): Books: Karl Popper (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Popper argues that a proposing scientific hypothesis is an inductive act, but it is a creative act not a logical one, but that scientific knowledge is dedective.
		When Popper claims that inductivism can be replaced by deductivism, he is unaware of the fact that induction is used at the beginning of both experimental and theoretical investigations to create hypotheses and again at the end of the investigation to generalize the test results.
		Popper's views should serve to waken up those who seek the comfort of producing all knowledge through deduction only, but in fact, they shed doubt mostly on theories, because a theory is not deduced from anywhere, unlike empirical knowledge is, about some singular phenomena.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415278449 (3054 words)

	John Popper - Libertarian
		Popper was less equivocal in a 1996 interview with MTV.
		For example, www.BluesTraveler.net notes: "Popper is widely known as a gun-rights advocate." In a 1997 interview in Rolling Stone, Popper said he supported the repeal of most gun laws.
		In an interview on Launch Music On Yahoo (October 10, 1997), Popper said he collected "firearms and swords" as a hobby, and said he loved the "aesthetic of weaponry" because they were "designed to be life-savingly efficient." In May 1999, Popper defended Second Amendment rights on MTV's Point Blank, a round-table discussion about gun control.
	www.theadvocates.org /celebrities/john-popper.html (515 words)

	Sir Karl Popper (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sir Karl Popper, for whom the Karl Popper Debate Program is named, is well known for his important contributions to the philosophy of science, political theory, and sociology.
		Simply stated, an open society is a form of social organization based on the recognition that nobody has a monopoly on the truth, that different people have different views and interests, and that there is a need for institutions to protect the rights of all people to allow them to live together in peace.
		Popper was a fellow of the Royal Society and a fellow of the British Academy, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of other national and international academies.
	www.osi.hu /debate/karlpopp.htm (398 words)

	Hotmail Popper
		Hotmail Popper is a small application that allows you to check your Hotmail account e-mail from a normal POP mail client (such as Eudora, IncrediMail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Opera, Netscape, etc).
		In addition, Hotmail Popper allows you to send e-mails through Hotmail's service, as if it was a normal SMTP (outgoing mail) server.
		If you are not running as Administrator, you may need to change the Hotmail Popper options to specify different POP and SMTP ports from the defaults.
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	David Popper (1843 - 1913) - famous David Popper Classics hit collection and David Popper Music Reviews. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The cellist David Popper was born in Prague in 1843, the son of the Prague Cantor.
		It was through Liszt’s then son-in-law, the pianist and conductor Hans von Bülow, that Popper was recommended in 1863 to a position as Chamber Virtuoso at the court of the Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Konstantin von Hohenzollern, who had had a new residence with a concert hall built at Löwenberg.
		In 1867 Popper made his début in Vienna and the following year was appointed principal cellist at the Court Opera, serving also for a time as cellist in the Hellmesberger Quartet.
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/817.htm (374 words)

	Karl Popper
		On the quantitative account, verisimilitude is defined by assigning quantities to contents, where the index of the content of a given theory is it logical improbability (given again that content and probability vary inversely).
		Contrary to popular belief, it is the former rather than the latter which are typical of the natural sciences, which means that typically prediction in natural science is conditional and limited in scope - it takes form of hypothetical assertions stating that certain specified changes will come about if particular specified events antecedently take place.
		This is itself clearly a major alteration in his position, and arguably represents a substantial climb down on his part: Marxism can no longer be dismissed as 'unscientific' simply because its advocates preserved the theory from falsification by modifying it (for in general terms, such a procedure, it now transpires, is perfectly respectable scientific practice).
	www.ul.ie /~philos/vol1/popper.html (8136 words)

	Popper, Karl Raimund (1902–94) : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
		Popper belongs to a generation of Central European émigré scholars that profoundly influenced thought in the English-speaking countries in this century.
		Popper’s ‘falsificationism’ reverses the usual view that accumulated experience leads to scientific hypotheses; rather, freely conjectured hypotheses precede, and are tested against, experience.
		After the Anschluss, Popper was stimulated by the problem of why democracies had succumbed to totalitarianism and applied his critical rationalism to political philosophy.
	www.rep.routledge.com /article/DD052 (271 words)

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	Critical Rationalism
		Popper's initial emphasis was on empirical science, where he solved the problem of induction, something that had been haunting philosophers and scientists for centuries.
		Popper was against any form of government that didn't give people the chance to speak out.
		Sir Karl Raimund Popper: In Memoriam: By Eugene Yue-Ching Ho and Pui-Chong Lund.
	www.geocities.com /criticalrationalist (1839 words)

	About the philosophers,Popper, Hayek and Bartley.Rafe Champion analyses their writings. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		His efforts were rewarded with a share of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1974. In addition to his contribution to economics, he wrote important books in the history of ideas, the methods of the social sciences, the principles of psychology and the evolution of morality and the spontaneous orders of modern civilisation.
		A quiet achiever from New Zealand, Peter Munz has the distinction of studying with both Popper and Wittgenstein. He has combined his interests in history, philosophy and science to produce a steady stream of works expanding and elaborating his own ideas and important aspects of Popper's work.
		He was possibly the first person to suggest that Popper was an unwitting harbinger of the deconstructionists on account of his theory of conjectural knowledge which held out no prospect for the strong justification of beliefs.
	www.the-rathouse.com /aboutphilos.html (1335 words)

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