Ep. 280: Imre Lakatos on Scientific Progress (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Relationship Between Observations and Claims
Laketosh: If we say there's an unbridgeable gap, it's like is and ought, then we could never argue for anything. But that's what he's saving, right? He says at the very beginning of the essay that the notion of provability,. Alludes to the idea of correspondence, like a correspondents theory of truth. And i think that the brokenness of the paradime is exactly what you're saying.
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