Blog entry 7
Hi, today I will write about the person I admire. The person I admire is Karl Popper, since he was one of the first philosophers of science that I met, and therefore he was the door to know this area about the knowledge that he did not know previously, in addition to reading his ideas, It motivates me to continue studying. His contributions lie in the area of epistemology, studying the concept of falsificationism, falsificationism is an epistemological current that consists in contrasting a theory means trying to refute it by means of a counterexample. If it is not possible to refute it, this theory is corroborated, and can be provisionally accepted, but never verified. Karl Raimund Popper was born on 28 July 1902 in Vienna. In 1937 he took up a position teaching philosophy at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, where he was to remain for the duration of the Second World War. Popper was knighted in 1965, and retired from the University of London in 1969, remai...