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A Hungarian-born philosopher of math and science
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Lakatos went to college at Debrecen University obtaining a degree in physics, math, and philosophy.
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Germans invade Hungary, and were forced in Debrecen ghetto amongst the war Lakatos's father with a few others manage to escape relocating to Australia
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Lakatos left home in 1956 during the Hungarian uprising because of the soviet tanks
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According to Lakatos he explains that like Popper the development of math is more of like the development science. Lakatos talks about the development with rules you must obey. Such as not forming an inconsistent hypothesis. Musgrave, Alan and Charles Pigden, "Imre Lakatos", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/lakatos/
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Lakatos connected Popper's falsifications and Kuhn's views. The structure of the research program was the "definitive" or not revisable claims of a program and the "protective belt" that can be revised in order to protect the "hard core" being refuted. Musgrave, Alan and Charles Pigden, "Imre Lakatos", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/lakatos/
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https://youtu.be/_FzaQS4noAA
Lakatos's interview on Science and pseudoscience -
Passed away due to a heart attack.