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Paul Feyerabend and Software Technology
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Gregor Snelting

Abstract

The following contribution is a plea for more stringent methodological standards in software technology. Certain basic scientific principles are often neglected, principles such as the fact that predictions need to be falsifiable. This appears to confirm the theses of the so-called ``constructivists'' that ``objective truths'' are in reality just social constructs. It is thus argued here that one needs a stronger empirical foundation for software technology.

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