Popper
6 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
A British philosopher of Austrian birth who argued that scientific theories cannot be definitively proved true but are validated only by surviving rigorous attempts to falsify them.
“Popper's concept of falsifiability transformed the philosophy of science in the twentieth century.”
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