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Lakatos Research Programme

LAH-kah-tosh REE-serch proh-GRAM

/ˈlɑːkɑːtɒʃ ˈriːsɜːrtʃ ˈproʊɡræm/

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Syllable breakdown

lakatosresearchprogramme

Dictionary meaning

Imre Lakatos's modification of Popperian falsificationism: scientific work consists of research programmes with a protective belt of auxiliary hypotheses surrounding an untestable hard core

Examples

Lakatos showed that scientists don't abandon theories at the first anomaly but protect them within a research programme.

Pronunciation tips

'Lakatos' is Hungarian: 'LAH-kah-tosh' (the 's' is like 'sh'). 'Programme' is the British spelling.

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