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

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The Importance of the Empirical Aspect of Scientific Discovery

This was really rich reading. There's just some to unpack. And unlike mark, i actually liked the examples towards the end because i thought they were really fun. Theyer great. I think the key theme, so there's two i want to get to. The first is he does what i think is a slam dunk refutation of the importance of the empirical aspect scientific discovery. What constitutes an important empirical fact at one point in time may become completely irrelevant later. So we are constantly in a position of re interpreting the empirical aspect of it through the theoretical and progressive enterprise.

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