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    Supports→McCloskey's philosophical position that epistemological standards should be abandoned is hard to defend

    Economics' predictive failures are better addressed by Lakatosian progressive problem-shifts than by McCloskey's wholesale retreat to rhetorical analysis.

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    • 1.Lakatos's framework preserves economics' scientific identity by allowing theoretical evolution within a rational research program structure.
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    • 2.McCloskey's rhetorical turn risks dissolving economics into literary criticism, abandoning empirical constraints that distinguish science from persuasion.
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    • 3.Problem-shifts show how economics progresses despite failures—explaining anomalies through auxiliary hypotheses is how mature sciences develop.
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    • 1.Lakatosian progressive shifts can rationalize endless ad-hoc modifications, making unfalsifiable theories appear scientifically legitimate indefinitely.
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    • 2.McCloskey rightly identifies that economic persuasion operates through rhetoric regardless; ignoring this just masks how knowledge actually gets accepted.
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    • 3.Economics' persistent predictive failures suggest the problem may be foundational assumptions, not methodology—neither framework adequately addresses this.
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