%0 Journal Article %T CAMBIO TE¨®RICO EN LAS FRONTERAS DEL RACIONALISMO CR¨ªTICO: CONMENSURABILIDAD Y REFUTACI¨®N PROGRESIVA EN LAS CIENCIAS SOCIALES %A Ortega Caro %A Cristian %J Alpha (Osorno) %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-22012011000100017 %X under the inspiration of karl popper's epistemology, we introduce a reflection that brings awereness of how social theories are subject to a particular process of epistemic change. for this reason a substantive model --progressive, historical and intrepetative-- is proposed to reveal the empirical space of the theories, an invitation to object the development of the sciences (in particular the social sciences) that contains, in addition and indirectly, a critical view to the historical current of the epistemology; all this from our proposal: the model of progressive refutation. %K critical rationalism %K theoretical change %K epistemic change %K falsability %K progressive refutation. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-22012011000100017&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en