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In this paper I want to take up two ideas presented by Imre Lakatos in his article on the ‘History of Science and its Rational Reconstructions’:1 the ideas that (1) one ought to distinguish between an internal and an external history of science, and that (2) these two are in a relation of both competition and mutual completion.
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Gähde, U. (1989). Bridge Structures and the Borderline Between the Internal and External History of Science. In: Gavroglu, K., Goudaroulis, Y., Nicolacopoulos, P. (eds) Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 111. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3025-4_17
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