| | Encyclopedia article on Philosophy of Economics |
 | | That implication (which is arguably the foundation for all social science) is that the social, aggregative implications of individual choices are often unintended. |
| | Although still emphasizing the importance of empirical criticism, Lakatos insisted that theories should not be abandoned until superior alternatives are found, and his emphasis on heuristics struck a responsive chord. |
| | Crucial to the approach and to his methodological views is a strongly realist ontology (see Realism, instrumentalism, fictionalism), which takes the objects of scientific investigation to be causal mechanisms and tendencies that lie as it were 'beneath' the irregularity of phenomena. |
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