Paul Feyerabend

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Paul Feyerabend Anonymous 10/23/15 (Fri) 03:30:28 36d4f1 No.2208

For anyone who is deluded by scientism and "ratioanalism" (naïve vulgar logicism), read up on Feyerabend. He was Karl Popper's greatest champion and later critic who turned against the insidious and pernicious ideology known as "science".

https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/feyerabe.htm

Anonymous 10/23/15 (Fri) 23:48:43 36d4f1 No.2218

I'm skeptical. I hope that's not a marxist thinker, because I hate the shit out of marxists. I'm still curious, though.

Anonymous 10/26/15 (Mon) 05:04:46 36d4f1 No.2239

>>2218

There was one thing which I once saw when doing a superficial read of Feyerabend a few years back. Allegedly, he once challenged rationalists to devise a scientific experiment that could test whether science is the best method by which to determine the truth.

The catch is that any scientific experiment already proceeds scientifically (or it wouldn't be a scientific experiment) and any achievements or demonstrable validity on the part of the non-scientific methods would be indigestible or even untestable by the experiment.

If, in the process of the experiment, the scientists see and acknowledge value on the part of any of the irrational methods, they will only have been able to recognize this value at a pre-rational level of thought, thus demonstrating the limiting effect of scientism.