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Since this paper is based on a presentation at a conference organised in honour of my late teacher and friend Imre Lakatos on the occasion of what would have been his 75th birthday, I hope I may be forgiven for beginning with a few autobiographical remarks, despite their irrelevance to the paper’s intellectual content.
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Worrall, J. (2002). “Heuristic Power” and the “Logic of Scientific Discovery”: Why the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes is Less Than Half the Story. In: Kampis, G., Kvasz, L., Stöltzner, M. (eds) Appraising Lakatos. Vienna Circle Institute Library, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0769-5_6
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