DEATH OF KARL POPPER (fwd)

[dom]

Sad news:
> 
> Forwarded from the usenet group sci.philosophy:
> 
> PHILOSOPHER POPPER DIES AGED 92
> Saturday 17 September 1994:
> 
> The philosopher Sir Karl Popper has died, aged 92, in a Surrey hospital. 
> He died in the Mayday Hospital in Croydon after a long illness. He 
> became world famous through publication of works such as "The Open 
> Society and Its Enemies", in which he sought to rebut Marxism, Fascism
> and other authoritarian ideologies.
> 
> He questioned the idea of inexorable laws of human history, believing
> history to be influenced by the growth of knowledge, which is 
> unpredictable. His books attacking Marxism had a strong influence on 
> Margaret Thatcher as prime minister of Britain - and he was admired by 
> other world leaders past and present.