Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.
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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.
Imre Lakatos
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.
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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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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
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