Why Imre Lakatos’s Account of Science is Superior
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چکیده
An important question that has always been debated in philosophy of science concerns the best account science. Ranging from multiple accounts, Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, and Imre Lakatos, etc., an argument how Lakatos’s Methodology Scientific Research Programmes (MSRP) is will be defended. In addition, scientific evidence explanation – featuring philosophers Peter Achinstein, Nancy Cartwright, Philip Kitcher presented support MSRP. Furthermore, using theory continental drift, proposed by Alfred L. Wegener, illustrate Wegener’s fits well with
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Spectra undergraduate research journal
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2766-7227']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.9741/2766-7227.1017