Lakatos on justificationism

Sfetcu, Nicolae Lakatos on justificationism., 2019 [Preprint]

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According to the scientific "justificationist" method, knowledge consisted of proven sentences. Classical intellectuals (or "rationalists," in the narrow sense of the term) have accepted extremely varied - and powerful "proofs", through revelation, intellectual intuition, experience. These, with the help of logic, have allowed them to prove any kind of scientific statement. Classical empiricists accepted as axioms only a relatively small set of "factual propositions" that expressed "hard facts". The value of their truth has been established by experience and has been the empirical basis of science.

Item type:	Preprint
Keywords:	Imre Lakatos, knowledge, justificationism, science, methodology
Subjects:	I. Information treatment for information services > ID. Knowledge representation.
Depositing user:	Nicolae Sfetcu
Date deposited:	24 Aug 2023 21:13
Last modified:	24 Aug 2023 21:13
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/44666

References

Lakatos, Imre. 1976. “Proofs and Refutations Edited by Imre Lakatos.” Cambridge Core. 1976. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139171472.

———. 1978. “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes.” Cambridge Core. 1978. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511621123.

Popper, Karl. 2002. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge. 2nd edition. London ; New York: Routledge.

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