In one lecture, this thinker gave the example of a swarm of gnats to represent the unpredictable "cloud," which he equated with the more orderly and steady "clock." This thinker adapted Alfred Tarski's thought in his application of a concept derived from the logical content of statements called truthlikeness or "verisimilitude." A book by this thinker asserts that Plato's idealized politics are "fundamentally identical" to totalitarianism in their morality in its first volume, (*) "The Spell of 
In one lecture, this thinker gave the example of a swarm of gnats to represent the unpredictable "cloud," which he equated with the more orderly and steady "clock." This thinker adapted Alfred Tarski's thought in his application of a concept derived from the logical content of statements called truthlikeness or "verisimilitude." A book by this thinker asserts that Plato's idealized politics are "fundamentally identical" to totalitarianism in their morality in its first volume, (*) "The Spell of Plato." This man, who referred to his philosophy as "critical rationalism," distinguished scientific statements from non-scientific statements by their falsifiability. For 10 points, name this philosopher of science, the author of The Open Society and its Enemies and The Logic of Scientific Discovery.
In one lecture, this thinker gave the example of a swarm of gnats to represent the unpredictable "cloud," which he equated with the more orderly and steady "clock."