Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with mis… - Imre Lakatos

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Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.

Imre Lakatos

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Imre Lakatos (November 9, 1922 – February 2, 1974) was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development, and also for introducing the concept of the 'research programme' in his methodology of scientific research programmes.

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Native Name: Lakatos Imre

Alternative Names: Imre Lipschitz

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:(1) T' has excess empirical content over T: that is, it predicts novel facts, that is, facts improbable in the light of, or even forbidden, by T;

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.

:(2) T' explains the previous success of T, that is, all the unrefuted content of T is included (within the limits of observable error) in the content of T'; and

Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes. - Imre Lakatos

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