
Ep. 280: Imre Lakatos on Scientific Progress (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Why You Can't Derive a Factual Proposition From Experiment
Hegel: Experiment is always going to be theory laden. He's granting the first one, though, for the sake of argument. Even if there were no such natural demarcation, logic would still destroy the second assumption that we could have non theoretical observational propositions. And i think what he wants to do in number two is something different, and it's logical as opposed to having to do with the theory of observation.
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