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Imre Lakatos gave new life to every problem he touched. There are many issues that I regret never having discussed with him. Among them is the one I examine below.
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Cohen, L.J. (1976). How Can One Testimony Corroborate Another?. 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_7
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