Imre Lakatos Quotes

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
Imre Lakatos

Crime, Commitment, Blind

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

Power, Before, Wrong

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

Knowledge, Again, Few

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

Faith, Power, Truth

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
Imre Lakatos

Between, Theory, Naive

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

Character, Idea, Growth

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
Imre Lakatos

History, Science, Philosophy

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
Imre Lakatos

Positive, Negative, Research

The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
Imre Lakatos

Between, Point, Technical

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
Imre Lakatos

Successful, Research, Theory

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
Imre Lakatos

Positive, Confused, Ocean

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
Imre Lakatos

Before, Theory, Emergence

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Biography

Nationality: Hungarian

Type: Philosopher

Born: November 9, 1922

Died: February 2, 1974

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