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Quote by Karl Popper on Scientific Skepticism and Epistemology

„no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.“

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Karl Popper was an Austrian-British philosopher and the founder of critical rationalism.

This quote illustrates Popper's philosophy of scientific skepticism and the limits of empirical evidence.


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Sir Karl Raimund Popper (1902–1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher. Through his work in the philosophy of knowledge and science, as well as in social, historical, and political philosophy, he shaped critical rationalism. He also served as a professor of logic and scientific methods.

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