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popper

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1. popper - Noun

2. Popper - Proper noun

Meaning

A dagger.

A utensil for popping corn, usually a wire basket with a long handle.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper, because that was the only thing they would let us use in the dorm, and we would fry squirrels in a popcorn popper in the dorm room. Mike Huckabee

The Steady State theory was what Karl Popper would call a good scientific theory: it made definite predictions, which could be tested by observation, and possibly falsified. Unfortunately for the theory, they were falsified. Stephen Hawking

Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops. Ken Kercheval

Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'. Alan Moore

The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology. Imre Lakatos

Accounts vary as to what happened next, but Wittgenstein apparently started waving a hot poker, demanding that Popper give him an example of a moral rule. Source: Internet

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