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Task 6 group 13 (best group eva) (Criteria for scientific status of a…
Task 6 group 13 (best group eva)
Criteria for scientific status of a theory
falsifiable
refutable
testable
confirmation only counts if it is the result of risky predictions
demarcation criteria = what makes up a scientific theory
ad-hoc modifications lower the scientific status if it becomes less falsifiable
Main contentions about science according to Lakatos
Scientists would not reject their theory = they are attached to it
Progressive research programs and degenerative research programs
Some theories are not testable immediately-> you need to know when it would be available to be tested
A theory can be scientific without evidence and it can be unscientific even if all the evidence is for the theory
the theory must have dramatic results that add to the knowledge
Kuhn's statements
a scientific revolution is the end of an old paradigm and the start of a new one
scientific paradigm cycle
there is not always a good outcome resulting from a paradigm shift
the paradigm determines which questions you ask, which methods you use etc.
If there is a science that has never changed, it is not science
all at once in the individual, but step-by-step in the society