:(2) T' explains the previous success of T, that is, all th… - Imre Lakatos

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:(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

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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

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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.

:(3) some of the excess content of T' is corroborated.

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

:(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 conten… - Imre Lakatos

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