“The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.”
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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.
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
