Popper
OriginAustria/UK
Era1902
SchoolPhilosophy of Science
About Popper
Falsifiability: a theory is scientific only if it can be proven wrong. The Open Society and Its Enemies attacked Plato, Hegel, and Marx as enemies of freedom. Fled Austria when the Nazis annexed it. His correspondence with Einstein influenced his thinking. His students included Soros who named his foundation after the book.