"Kuhn as does Popper rejects the idea that science grows by accumulation of eternal truths.. But while according to Po…"

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

"For the sophisticated falsificationist a scientific theory T is falsified if and only if another theory T' has been p…"

":(1) T' has excess empirical content over T: that is, it predicts novel facts, that is, facts improbable in the light…"

":(2) T' explains the previous success of T, that is, all the unrefuted content of T is included (within the limits of…"

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

"For centuries knowledge meant proven knowledge... Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philoso…"

"Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the conc…"

"It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic pow…"

"Lakatos realized and admitted that the existing standards of rationality, standards of logic included, were too restr…"