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Lakatos’ rather innocent sounding paraphrase of Kant (1971, p. 91) announced a bold theory about the dialectical interaction between history and philosophy.
History of science without philosophy of science is blind; philosophy of science without history of science is empty. — Lakatos
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Koertge, N. (1976). Rational Reconstructions. In: Cohen, R.S., Feyerabend, P.K., Wartofsky, M.W. (eds) Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1451-9_22
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