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Ep. 280: Imre Lakatos on Scientific Progress (Part One)

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What Is the Grounds of Scientific Knowledge?

Laketosh is trying to get at the notion of scientific knowledge, period. The project for a long time was to try and do that from within the system. Pauper's radical inside says you talk about this in terms of what makes a claim scientific even if it ultimately ends up being false. And so this goes way, way, way back. It's not just simply a nineteenth or twentieth century problem.

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