The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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Imre Lakatos
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About Imre Lakatos
Imre Lakatos was a Hungarian-born 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.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Imre LakatosResearch programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.