Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts — Imre Lakatos Copy Share
The history of mathematics, lacking the guidance of philosophy, [is] blind, while the philosophy of mathematics, turning its back on the most intriguing phenomena… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share
Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses by speculation… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share
The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share
Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share
One may rationally stick to a degenerating research programme until it is overtaken by a rival and even after. What one must not do… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share
It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share
The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share
If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share
The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share
No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share
Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share
Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share
