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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Karl Popper
Argues that no theory can be verified, only falsified, and that what makes a claim scientific is its exposure to a test that could in principle refute it.
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Karl Popper
Argues that no theory can be verified, only falsified, and that what makes a claim scientific is its exposure to a test that could in principle refute it.
Imre Lakatos
Replaces Popper's single falsifiable theory with a research programme of core and auxiliary hypotheses, judged progressive or degenerating by its record of novel prediction rather than any single refutation.