If even in science there is... by Imre Lakatos, a Hungarian Philosopher

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“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 power.”

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Name: Imre Lakatos

Nationality: Hungarian

Date of Birth: Nov 9, 1922

Date of Death: Feb 2, 1974

Profession: Philosopher

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

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Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

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

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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.

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It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.

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