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Lakatos's philosophy of mathematics

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Review article of I. Lakatos: Proofs and Refutations. Essays in the Logic of Mathematical Discovery. Edited by J. Worrall and E. G. Zahar, Cambridge University Press, 1976, xii + 174pp. An earlier version of this paper was read at the University of Oslo in 1977, where valuable comments were made by Professor D. Føllesdal. I am also grateful to Professor Alan Musgrave for his criticisms.

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Currie, G. Lakatos's philosophy of mathematics. Synthese 42, 335–351 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413811

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