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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

Imre Lakatos

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

Imre Lakatos

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

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Imre Lakatos (UK: , US: ; Hungarian: Lakatos Imre [ˈlɒkɒtoʃ ˈimrɛ]; 9 November 1922 – 2 February 1974) was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its "methodology of proofs and refutations" in its pre-axiomatic stages of development, and also for introducing the concept of the "research programme" in his methodology of scientific research programmes.

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.

Imre Lakatos

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.

Tags: knowledge

If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in pow...

Imre Lakatos

If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in pow...

Tags: faith, truth, power

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Imre Lakatos

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Tags: history, blind, philosophy, science

What, then, is the hallmark of science? Do we have to capitulate and agree that a scientific revolution is just an irrational change in commit­ment, that it is a religious conversion? Tom Kuhn, a dist...

Imre Lakatos

What, then, is the hallmark of science? Do we have to capitulate and agree that a scientific revolution is just an irrational change in commit­ment, that it is a religious conversion? Tom Kuhn, a dist...