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Bold hypothesis

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Bold hypothesis (or "bold conjecture") is a concept in the philosophy of science of Karl Popper, first explained in his debut The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1935) and subsequently elaborated in writings such as Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963). [1]

22 relations: Courage, Creativity, Criticism, Criticism of science, Criticisms of anti-scientific viewpoints, Epistemology, Experiment, Falsifiability, Hypothesis, Imre Lakatos, Innovation, Karl Popper, Non-science, Normal science, Outline of scientific method, Paul Feyerabend, Philosophy of science, Problem of induction, Scientific progress, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Thomas Kuhn, Verisimilitude.

Courage

Courage (also called bravery or valour) is the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation.

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Creativity

Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed.

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Criticism

Criticism is the practice of judging the merits and faults of something.

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Criticism of science

Criticism of science addresses and refines problems within science in order to improve science as a whole and its role in society.

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Criticisms of anti-scientific viewpoints

Criticisms of anti-scientific viewpoints are many and varied.

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Epistemology

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge.

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Experiment

An experiment is a procedure carried out to support, refute, or validate a hypothesis.

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Falsifiability

A statement, hypothesis, or theory has falsifiability (or is falsifiable) if it can logically be proven false by contradicting it with a basic statement.

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Hypothesis

A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon.

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Imre Lakatos

Imre Lakatos (Lakatos Imre; November 9, 1922 – February 2, 1974) was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development, and also for introducing the concept of the 'research programme' in his methodology of scientific research programmes.

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Innovation

Innovation can be defined simply as a "new idea, device or method".

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Karl Popper

Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher and professor.

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Non-science

A non-science is an area of study that is not scientific, especially one that is not a natural science or a social science that is an object of scientific inquiry.

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Normal science

Normal science, identified and elaborated on by Thomas Samuel Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, is the regular work of scientists theorizing, observing, and experimenting within a settled paradigm or explanatory framework.

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Outline of scientific method

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to scientific method: Scientific method – body of techniques for investigating phenomena and acquiring new knowledge, as well as for correcting and integrating previous knowledge.

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Paul Feyerabend

Paul Karl Feyerabend (January 13, 1924 – February 11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science best known for his work as a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for three decades (1958–1989).

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Philosophy of science

Philosophy of science is a sub-field of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science.

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Problem of induction

The problem of induction is the philosophical question of whether inductive reasoning leads to knowledge understood in the classic philosophical sense, highlighting the apparent lack of justification for.

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Scientific progress

Scientific progress is the idea that science increases its problem-solving ability through the application of the scientific method.

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The Logic of Scientific Discovery

The Logic of Scientific Discovery is a 1959 book about the philosophy of science by Karl Popper.

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Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American physicist, historian and philosopher of science whose controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom.

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Verisimilitude

Verisimilitude (or truthlikeness) is a philosophical concept that distinguishes between the relative and apparent (or seemingly so) truth and falsity of assertions and hypotheses.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bold_hypothesis

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