Lakatos on justificationism

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According to the scientific „justificationist” method, knowledge consisted of proven sentences. Classical intellectuals (or „rationalists,” in the narrow sense of the term) have accepted extremely varied – and powerful „proofs„, through revelation, intellectual intuition, experience. These, with the help of logic, have allowed them to prove any kind of scientific statement. Classical empiricists accepted as axioms only a relatively small set of „factual propositions” that expressed „hard facts”. The value of their truth has been established by experience and has been the empirical basis of science.