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Imre Lakatos Quotes

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic Picture Quote #1

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime Picture Quote #1

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory Picture Quote #1

That sometimes clear... and sometimes vague stuff... which is... mathematics Picture Quote #1

In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies Picture Quote #1

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind Picture Quote #1

No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one Picture Quote #1

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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic (Imre Lakatos Quotes) Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime (Imre Lakatos Quotes) There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory (Imre Lakatos Quotes) That sometimes clear... and sometimes vague stuff... which is... mathematics (Imre Lakatos Quotes) In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts (Imre Lakatos Quotes) 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 (Imre Lakatos Quotes) The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies (Imre Lakatos Quotes) Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism (Imre Lakatos Quotes) 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 (Imre Lakatos Quotes) Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind (Imre Lakatos Quotes) No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms (Imre Lakatos Quotes) 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 Quotes) Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one (Imre Lakatos Quotes)