KARL POPPER

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“SCIENCE IS PERHAPS THE ONLY HUMAN ACTIVITY IN WHICH ERRORS ARE SYSTEMATICALLY CRITICISED AND,. . . IN TIME, CORRECTED ~ KARL POPPER

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. . . .The 20th century philosopher who carried out this task for the Einsteinian revolution was Karl Popper (1902-94). Popper was born in Vienna in 1902.. . . .In his early and middle teens he was a Marxist, but he grew disgusted with the Communists’ willingness to let ordinary people be killed if it happened to suit their tactics, so he moved to the Social Democrats.

He lived his socialism -- dressed like a working man, lived among the unemployed, worked with handicapped children. This last brought him into contact with the psychoanalyst Alfred Adler. At the same time he was active I the musical avent-grade led by Schoenberg, and formed a friendship with the composer Webern. For holidays he was addicted to mountaineering. He married one of the student beauties of his generation. Although his life in Vienna was exceptionally rich and many-sided, full of enthusiastic commitment and exciting activities. But then came Nazism. In 1937, the year before Hitler took over Austria, Popper accepted a university job in New Zealand, and he was there throughout the World War II. When the war ended, in 1945, he went to England, and spent the rest of his career at the London School of Economics, where he became Professor of Logic and Scientific Method. in England he lived a life completely different from that of his youth in Vienna, deliberately isolating himself in order to produce his writings, which covered an exceptionally wide range of subjects. He was still publishing worthwhile new ideas at the age of 92, when he died. PAGE 222

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