
PREMIUM-Ep. 280: Imre Lakatos on Scientific Progress (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Sovereign Version of Methodological Falsificationism
In the sophisticated version, it's no longer this conflict between the observation and the theory. A theory is falsified if another, a better theory comes along. So you can have novel facts that have already been discovered, like the perihelionof mercury. The fact that his account naturally incorporates those things, to him, is a big positive. If that sounds like the kind of thing that you want to hear more about, then please go to partially examine life. Dot com, slash support.
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