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    It is not the case that There are methods of theory evaluation and constraints functioning in quantum gravity in something like the way experiment and observation function.

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    • 1.A 'pecking order' among theories reflects sociological factors—funding, prestige, institutional inertia—not epistemic warrant.
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    • 2.Imre Lakatos showed that research programs can persist through anomalies via protective belt adjustments, making internal ranking non-truth-tracking.
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    • 3.Without empirical contact, theory preference reduces to aesthetic and pragmatic values, which Kuhn and Feyerabend argued are theory-laden and non-convergent.
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    • 1.The abandonment of approaches in quantum gravity has been driven by mathematical inconsistency or redundancy, not empirical refutation.
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    • 2.Larry Laudan's pessimistic meta-induction shows that historically successful and 'preferred' theories are routinely discarded, undermining fatality as an epistemic signal.
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    • 3.Elimination of rivals through formal rather than empirical means establishes logical consistency, not observational adequacy, as the operative constraint.
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    • 1.There is a rudimentary 'pecking order' amongst the various approaches to quantum gravity.
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    • 2.The history of quantum gravity contains various fatalities (abandoned approaches).
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