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Criticism of Falsifiability

Sfetcu, Nicolae Criticism of Falsifiability., 2019 [Preprint]

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Thomas Kuhn criticized falsifiability because it characterized "the entire scientific enterprise in terms that apply only to its occasional revolutionary parts," and it cannot be generalized. In Kuhn's view, a delimitation criterion must refer to the functioning of normal science. Kuhn objects to Popper's entire theory and excludes any possibility of rational reconstruction of the development of science. Imre Lakatos said that if a theory is scientific or non-scientific, it can be determined independently of the facts. He proposed a modification of Popper's criterion, which he called "sophisticated (methodological) falsification".

Item type:	Preprint
Keywords:	falsifiability, Thomas Kuhn, Karl Popper, rational reconstruction, Imre Lakatos, methodology
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information > BF. Information policy
Depositing user:	Nicolae Sfetcu
Date deposited:	05 Oct 2023 07:14
Last modified:	05 Oct 2023 07:14
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/44879

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