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Imre Lakatos
Hungarian
Philosopher
About the author
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
Imre Lakatos,
Hungarian
Philosopher
#Commitment
#Crime
#Blind
#Theory
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,
Hungarian
Philosopher
#Knowledge
#Results
#Scientists
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,
Hungarian
Philosopher
#Science
#Power
#Faith
#Truth
#Lies
#Energy
#Theory
Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
Imre Lakatos,
Hungarian
Philosopher
#Theory
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,
Hungarian
Philosopher
#Power
#Research
#Wrong
The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
Imre Lakatos,
Hungarian
Philosopher
#Positive
#Ocean
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,
Hungarian
Philosopher
#Character
#Growth
#Idea
#Theories
#Facts
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
Imre Lakatos,
Hungarian
Philosopher
#Science
#History
#Blind
#Philosophy
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
Imre Lakatos,
Hungarian
Philosopher
#Research
#Positive
#Negative
The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
Imre Lakatos,
Hungarian
Philosopher
#Successful
#Research
#Example
There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
Imre Lakatos,
Hungarian
Philosopher
#Theory
The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
Imre Lakatos,
Hungarian
Philosopher