It Is Not That We

The Great Scientific Achievements Are Research Programmes Which Can Be Evaluated In Terms Of Progressive And Degenerative Problemshifts; And Scientific Revolutions Consist Of One Research Programme Superceding (overtaking In Progress) Another. This Methodology Offers A New Rational Reconstruction Of Science.

Einstein's Results Again Turned The Tables And Now Very Few Philosophers Or Scientists Still Think That Scientific Knowledge Is, Or Can Be, Proven Knowledge.

In Degenerating Programmes, However, Theories Are Fabricated Only In Order To Accommodate Known Facts

It Is Not That We Propose A Theory And Nature May Shout No; Rather, We Propose A Maze Of Theories, And Nature May Shout Inconsistent.

Indeed, This Epistemological Theory Of The Relation Between Theory And Experiment Differs Sharply From The Epistemological Theory Of Naive Falsificationism.