# Lakatos 1970: Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes

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# Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes

I. Lakatos, 1970. _Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge_.

Lakatos's account of science as competing research programmes, each with a hard core and a protective belt of auxiliary hypotheses, judged progressive or degenerating by whether their changes predict new facts.

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The inquiry-framework report uses the progressive/degenerating distinction to track whether a Voynich hypothesis gains confirmed predictions or only ad-hoc patches.

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Lakatos, I. (1970). Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes. Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139171434.009
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