Term: popper: British philosopher (born in Austria) who argued that scientific theories can never be proved to be true, but are tested by attempts to falsify them (1902-1994)
Candidate hypernym: philosopher: a specialist in philosophy → 1
Candidate hypernym: acoustician: a physicist who specializes in acoustics → 0
Candidate hypernym: abscondment: the act of running away secretly (as to avoid arrest) → 0
Candidate hypernym: paralytic: a person suffering from paralysis → 0
Candidate hypernym: perishability: unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being subject to decay or spoilage or destruction → 0
Candidate hypernym: tachina fly: bristly fly whose larvae live parasitically in caterpillars and other insects; important in control of noxious insects → 0
Candidate hypernym: perch: any of numerous fishes of America and Europe → 0
Candidate hypernym: triphosphopyridine nucleotide: a coenzyme of several enzymes → 0
Candidate hypernym: memo: a written proposal or reminder → 0
Candidate hypernym: treelet: a small tree → 0
Candidate hypernym: myxosporidian: mostly parasitic in fishes and including various serious pathogens → 0