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Sophisticated falsificationism thus shifts the problem of how to appraise theories to the problem of how to appraise series of theories.

If even in science there is no a 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.

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.

My concern is rather that Kuhn, having recognized the failure both of justificationism and falsificationism in providing rational accounts of scientific growth, seems now to fall back on irrationalism.

Most, if not all, Newtonian puzzles leading to a series of new variants superseding each other, were forseeable at the time of Newton's first naive model and no doubt Newton and his colleagues did forsee them: Newton must have been fully aware of the blatant falsity of his first variants.

The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.

Thus the methodology of scientific research programmes accounts for the relative autonomy of theoretical science: a historical fact whose rationality cannot be explained by the earlier falsificationists.

But then the distinctively negative character of naive falsificationism vanishes; criticism becomes more difficult, and also positive, constructive.

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.

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

For Popper scientific change is rational or at least rationally reconstructible and falls in the realm of the logic of discovery.

The positive heuristic sets out a programme wwhich lists a chain of ever more complicated models simulating reality : the scientist's attention is riveted on building his models following instructions which are laid down in the positive part of his programme.

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.

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.

Progress is measured by the degree to which a problemshift is progressive, by the degree to which the series of theories leads us to the discovery of novel facts.

The most important such series in the growth of science are characterized by a certain continuity which connects their members.

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