Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
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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
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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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.
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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
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Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
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