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- Sep. 26, 1994: Died:Sir Karl Popper
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Sep. 26, 1994 Taking Over Haiti
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 17
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- <p> DIED. SIR KARL POPPER, 92, philosopher; of complications from
- cancer; in Croydon, England. Although he was best known for
- his criticisms of Marxism and communism, Popper established
- one of the most important principles of the philosophy of science.
- In his first book, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, published
- in 1934, Popper argued that what makes science scientific lies
- not in the fact that its basic tenets can be proved but rather
- that the arguments against them can be disproved. Born in Vienna,
- Popper left Austria in the late 1930s and eventually settled
- in England, where he was a professor at the London School of
- Economics until his retirement in 1969.
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