Imre Lakatos
# Imre Lakatos

Imre Lakatos (9 de novembro de 1922 - 2 de fevereiro de 1974) foi um filósofo húngaro da matemática e da ciência, conhecido por sua tese sobre a falibilidade da matemática e sua "metodologia de provas e refutações" em seus estágios pré-axiomáticos de desenvolvimento, e também por introduzir o conceito de "programa de pesquisa" em sua metodologia de programas de pesquisa científica.
       - Kuhn as does Popper rejects the idea that science grows by accumulation of eternal truths.. But while according to Popper science is ‘revolution in permanence’, and criticism the heart of the scientiﬁc enterprise, according to Kuhn revolution is exceptional and, indeed, extra-scientiﬁc, and criticism is, in ‘normal’ times, anathema... The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology. It concerns our central intellectual values, and has implications not only for theoretical physics but also for the underdeveloped social sciences and even for moral and political philosophy. If even in science there is no other way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power. Thus Kuhn’s position would vindicate, no doubt, unintentionally, the basic political credo of contemporary religious maniacs (‘student revolutionaries’).
          - Imre Lakatos (1974) "Da Crítica e do Crescimento do Conhecimento". conforme citado em: Thora Margareta Bertilsson (2009) Teoria da Investigação de Peirce e Além. p. 41.
       - Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.
          - Imre Lakatos (1978, p. 6), citado em: Vernon L. Smith (1989), "Teoria, experimento e economia." The Journal of Economic Perspectives 3 (1): 168.
       - For centuries knowledge meant proven knowledge... 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. But few realize that with this the whole classical structure of intellectual values falls in ruins and has to be replaced.
          - Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, 1970
       - Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.
          - Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, 1970