Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue:… - Imre Lakatos

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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Imre Lakatos

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About Imre Lakatos

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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Pen Names: Imre Molnár

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;

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

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. - Imre Lakatos

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