POL 2156 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Content Analysis, Falsifiability
2 Feb 2018
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The kuhn"s cycle things that aren"t acceptable don"t fit in the model, this is the moment when the. Every so often the fundamental nature of science changes we see throughout history where everything will cohere but there will come a moment when the number of scientific crisis. When you switch you are not merely tweaking what you think the data are and what they mean fundamentally changes. Lakatosian gave a better theory for positivists; he didn"t like the idea that there wasn"t a verifiable reason that it changed. The scientific program can disprove parts of it by adjusting the belt to what"s new and old, so this hard core centre of the research program this protective belt changes so long as that core doesn"t. Our basic principles don"t have to change the only time that core needs to change is if you can"t explain things.
