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| Paradoxes: are contradictions within formally correct statements or sets of statements that lead to an existence assumption, which initially seemed plausible, to be withdrawn. Paradoxes are not errors, but challenges that may lead to a re-formulation of the prerequisites and assumptions, or to a change in the language, the subject domain, and the logical system. See also Russellian paradox, contradictions, range, consistency._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Imre Lakatos on Paradoxes - Dictionary of Arguments
I 206 Def tacking paradox/Lakatos/Schurz: The possibility to increase the empirical content of a theory version by the mere conjunctive addition of some empirically untested proposition. >Empirical content, >Content. Solution/Lakatos: The connection of an auxiliary hypothesis generating a new empirical content with the previous theory must be more intimate than that of a mere conjunction. I 207 Solution: the theory T must be homogeneous with respect to the empirical content: Def homogeneity/theory/short: a factorization ((s) splitting) of T with respect to E(T) is not possible. Logical form: Subdivision of T and E(T) into two disjoint subsets. T1UT2 = T and E1UE2 = E(T) such that T1 implies all phenomena in E1 and T2 implies all phenomena in E2. If this is possible, the theory is heterogeneous. Any theory obtained by irrelevant reinforcement is factorizable in this sense. A connection of theory T with this reinforcement H is empirically noncreative. >Theories/Lakatos, >Review/Lakatos. _____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Laka I I. Lakatos The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers (Philosophical Papers (Cambridge)) Cambridge 1980 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-26