"The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies."

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"The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies."

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

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"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."

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

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