Karl Popper
In what year was Karl Popper born?
What is 1902?
This refers to the tendency of all human beings to perceive more order and regularity in nature than there is in reality.
What is the Idol of the Tribe?
Aristotle believed that the objects beyond the moon moved in these type of patterns.
What are circles?
This is the classic definition of knowledge.
What is justified true belief?
This is the problem of defining what is and is not science.
What is the demarcation problem?
How we know what we know is known as _____________________.
What is Epistemology?
This Idol refers to individual weaknesses in reasoning due to particular personalities and likes and dislikes; someone may, for example, be either conservative or radical in temperament and this may prejudice them in their view of some subject matter.
What is the Idol of the Cave?
Aristotle believed all matter on Earth was made of these things.
What are Earth, Air, Fire, and Water?
Experiments and observation are the only ways to prove a scientific fact. This represents the philosophy of ____________________.
What is Empiricism?
In the sixteen hundreds, this part of physics became a shining example of scientific achievement.
What is Mechanics?
Karl Popper was born in this country.
What is Austria?
The confusions engendered by our received language and terminology, which influence our thinking; for example, using the same word for the metal lead and for that part of a pencil that makes a mark on paper.
What is the Idol of the Marketplace?
Copernicus’ views were differed from Arisotle's mainly because he believed in what scientific principle?
What is heliocentrism?
A problem with deductive logic is that...
What is that it doesn’t generate anything new?
This Latin word or phrase gives us the word science.
What is scientia?
Popper was a contemporary of these two other famous scientists.
Who are Freud and Einstein?
Finally, the Idols of the ____________ are the philosophical systems that in corporate mistaken methods, such as Aristotle’s, for acquiring knowledge.
What is the Theatre?
This is the name of Francis Bacon’s book which was to replace Aristotle’s method for reasoning?
What was Novum Organum?
Falsification is seen in this part of the scientific method.
What is testing various theories in such a way that they are able to fail?
We are justified in believing whatever seems most __________________ given our current _________.
What is probable and data?
Popper believed that irrefutable theories were this.
What is pseudo science, (or not scientific)?
The belief that we should only believe those parts of scientific theories which can be directly observed is called...
What is Scientific Antirealism?
Bacon’s “forms,” unlike Aristotle’s “forms” were concerned with…
What are the immediate physical causes of things?
The idea that the Earth is at the center of the solar system is called __________________.
What is geocentrism?
The eclipse in 1919 could have disproved a theory of Albert Einstein. Which theory?
What is Einstein's General Theory of Relativity?