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A book by this philosopher describes that people first held “naïve monism,” in which no distinction is made between natural and normative laws, as the first step in a process that ends with “critical dualism.” In a 1967 lecture, this philosopher claimed that the universe only had one world at its inception, but a second one emerged from biological evolution and a third from human’s “products of thoughts.” This thinker argued that scientific theories should be risky and prohibitive (10[1])as a part of a solution to the demarcation problem. That solution revolves around this thinker’s most famous concept, found (10[1])in the book The Logic of Scientific Discovery, (10[1])which is demonstrated with the finding of a black swan (10[1])proving that every swan is not white. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Austrian-born philosopher of science who invented the concept of falsifiability. (10[1])■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Karl Popper [or Karl Raimund Popper]
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