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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Imre Lakatos
Born: November 9, 1922
Died: February 2, 1974 (aged 51)
Bio: Imre Lakatos 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.
Known for:
- Proofs and Refutations
- For and Against Method
- Mathematics, Science and Epistemology
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