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Subject: Re: Definition of science
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For an interesting perspective on the nature of science,
more or less in the spirit of Lakatos (& with an epigram
from Lakatos's _Proofs and Refutations_, at least in the
draft that I've seen), see the forthcoming or recently
published

Scientific Discovery:
An Account of the Creative Processes

by Patrick W. Langley, Herbert A. Simon, Gary L. Bradshaw, &
   Jan M. Zytkow

MIT Press