{"title":"Lakatos's criticism of Carnapian inductive logic was mistaken","authors":"Teddy Groves","doi":"10.1016/j.jal.2015.09.014","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In <span>[39]</span>, Imre Lakatos influentially argued that Carnapian inductive logic was a degenerate research programme. This paper argues that Lakatos's criticism was mistaken and that, according to Lakatos's own standards, Carnapian inductive logic was progressive rather than degenerate.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Logic","volume":"14 ","pages":"Pages 3-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jal.2015.09.014","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Applied Logic","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S157086831500083X","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Mathematics","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In [39], Imre Lakatos influentially argued that Carnapian inductive logic was a degenerate research programme. This paper argues that Lakatos's criticism was mistaken and that, according to Lakatos's own standards, Carnapian inductive logic was progressive rather than degenerate.