The man who buried Marx and Freud. (Karl Popper) (Obituary)

Economist (US), The, September, 1994

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UNTIL his death on September 17th, Sir Karl Popper was the best- known and most widely read of living philosophers. There were no challengers. Why? Because he had a simple idea that anybody can understand. It is that man makes progress by making mistakes.

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Popper applied this thesis to science and to politics. In science, he argued that the mark of a good theory was that it should be easily falsifiable--that is, open to correction. He attacked Freud for propounding theories so all-encompassing that they could not be refuted. Freudianism, argued Popper, could explain away any apparent ...

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The man who buried Marx and Freud. (Karl Popper) (Obituary)

Economist (US), The, September, 1994

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