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Imre Lakatos

Imre Lakatos Books

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“The great scientific achievements are research programmes which can be evaluated in terms of progressive and degenerative problemshifts; and scientific revolutions consist of one research programme superceding (overtaking in progress) another. This methodology offers a new rational reconstruction of science.”

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Author:Imre Lakatos
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“Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses by speculation and criticism, by the logic of proofs and refutations.”

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Book:Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery
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“One may rationally stick to a degenerating research programme until it is overtaken by a rival and even after. What one must not do is to deny its poor public record... It is perfectly rational to play a risky game: what is irrational is to deceive oneself about the risk.”

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Book:The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers
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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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Book:The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers
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