Imre Lakatos Quote

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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About Imre Lakatos

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.