Ep. 280: Imre Lakatos on Scientific Progress (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is Newton's Theory Resilient?
Theories are resilient in this respect, he says. But there's also the effect that certain levels of inconsistency will regularly get grabbed hold of within a research program and held up as something t everybody's worried about. And it's not that they get ignored. S that they don't always get ignored, but they may become a feature of the research.
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