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Lakatos’s project is here taken as consisting in the attempt at looking for a universal methodology which fits scientific practice, especially as witnessed by the history of science.
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Pera, M. (1989). Methodological Sophisticationism: A Degenerating Project. 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_14
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