For 10 points, name this major proponent of falsifiability, a historian of science who authored The Logic of Scientific Discovery and The Open Society and its Enemies.
One of this thinker's works is divided into four sections critiquing the "Pro-Naturalistic Doctrines" and "Anti-Naturalistic Doctrines" of the title approach and attacks a tendency to confuse "trends" with "laws." He put forth a model of understanding involving the interactions between Worlds 1, 2, and 3. He proposed a theory of in which tentative guesses and their negations increase collective knowledge in his collection Conjectures and Refutations, and worried about academia's accepting attitude towards the more nefarious aspects of (*) Plato's political philosophy in the first volume of another work. For 10 points, name this major proponent of falsifiability, a historian of science who authored The Logic of Scientific Discovery and The Open Society and its Enemies.
One of this thinker's works is divided into four sections critiquing the "Pro-Naturalistic Doctrines" and "Anti-Naturalistic Doctrines" of the title approach and attacks a tendency to confuse "trends" with "laws."
Karl {Popper}