The Positive Heuristic Of The

It Would Be Wrong To Assume That One Must Stay With A Research Programme Until It Has Exhausted All Its Heuristic Power, That One Must Not Introduce A Rival Programme Before Everybody Agrees That The Point Of Degeneration Has Probably Been Reached.

Research Programmes, Besides Their Negative Heuristic, Are Also Characterized By Their Positive Heuristic.

The Proving Power Of The Intellect Or The Senses Was Questioned By The Skeptics More Than Two Thousand Years Ago; But They Were Browbeaten Into Confusion By The Glory Of Newtonian Physics.

Belief May Be A Regrettably Unavoidable Biological Weakness To Be Kept Under The Control Of Criticism: But Commitment Is For Popper An Outright Crime.

If Even In Science There Is No A Way Of Judging A Theory But By Assessing The Number, Faith And Vocal Energy Of Its Supporters, Then This Must Be Even More So In The Social Sciences: Truth Lies In Power.