The Positive Heuristic Of The Programme Saves

No Experimental Result Can Ever Kill A Theory: Any Theory Can Be Saved From Counterinstances Either By Some Auxiliary Hypothesis Or By A Suitable Reinterpretation Of Its Terms.

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.

Research Programmes, Besides Their Negative Heuristic, Are Also Characterized By Their Positive Heuristic.

Indeed, This Epistemological Theory Of The Relation Between Theory And Experiment Differs Sharply From The Epistemological Theory Of Naive Falsificationism.

Man's Respect For Knowledge Is One Of His Most Peculiar Characteristics. Knowledge In Latin Is Scientia, And Science Came To Be The Name Of The Most Respectable Kind Of Knowledge.