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Debrecen
Born in the Hungarian city, Debrecen. He studied philosophy, physics and mathematics at. However his passion was different, he was attracted to revolutionary communism. -
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Building Communism
He was a Stalinist and held an important role in building up the Communist rule, especially within cultural lifestyle and education in Hungary. -
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Communism Debate
Being on the losing side of arguments within the Hungarian communist party. He faced charges and went to prison for revisionism. This carried on until 1953. -
A life of acomplishments
After a life of contributions, such as the methodology of scientific research programmes he died in London, England -
Criterion of Pseudoscience
The demarcation criterion of pseudoscience proposed by Lakatos, he described that a theory is pseudoscientific if it does not form predictions of previously unknown phenomena or if the predictions constantly are proved wrong. Opposite of scientific theories, which predict facts.
Lakatos, I. (1978) The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes