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  2. Poppers - Wikipedia

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    Poppers. Poppers (or popper) is a slang term referring to recreational drugs belonging to the alkyl nitrite family of chemical compounds. When fumes from these substances are inhaled, they act as potent vasodilators, producing mild euphoria, warmth, and dizziness. Most effects have a rapid onset and are short-acting. [1]

  3. Ext JS - Wikipedia

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    Ext JS is a JavaScript application framework for building interactive cross-platform web applications [2] using techniques such as Ajax, DHTML and DOM scripting. It can be used as a simple component framework (for example, to create dynamic grids on otherwise static pages) but also as a full framework for building single-page applications (SPAs).

  4. The Logic of Scientific Discovery - Wikipedia

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    62448100. The Logic of Scientific Discovery is a 1959 book about the philosophy of science by the philosopher Karl Popper. Popper rewrote his book in English from the 1934 (imprint '1935') German original, titled Logik der Forschung. Zur Erkenntnistheorie der modernen Naturwissenschaft, which literally translates as, "Logic of Research: On the ...

  5. Julius Popper - Wikipedia

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    Julius Popper (December 15, 1857 – June 5, 1893), known in Spanish as Julio Popper (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxuljo poˈpeɾ]), was a Romanian-born Argentine engineer, adventurer, and explorer. He was known as a modern " conquistador " of Tierra del Fuego in southern South America, and was both a controversial and influential figure.

  6. Popper's three worlds - Wikipedia

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    Popper's three worlds is a way of looking at reality, described by the British philosopher Karl Popper in a lecture given in August 1967. The concept involves three interacting worlds, called world 1 , world 2 and world 3 .

  7. The Poverty of Historicism - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 0-415-06569-0 (1994 Routledge edition) OCLC. 564446907. The Poverty of Historicism is a 1944 book by the philosopher Karl Popper (revised in 1957), in which the author argues that the idea of historicism is dangerous and bankrupt.

  8. Wittgenstein's Poker - Wikipedia

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    Wittgenstein's Poker. Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers is a 2001 book by BBC journalists David Edmonds and John Eidinow about events in the history of philosophy involving Sir Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein, leading to a confrontation at the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club in ...

  9. Charles Sanders Peirce - Wikipedia

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    e. Charles Sanders Peirce ( / pɜːrs / [8] [9] PURSS; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism ". [10] [11] According to philosopher Paul Weiss, Peirce was "the most original and versatile of America's philosophers and America ...