https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUtzWMh1fro A quote from Paul Feyerabend's Stanford Encyclopedia page, quoted this bit: "One of my motives for writing Against Method was to free people from the tyranny of philosophical obfuscators and abstract concepts such as “truth”, “reality”, or “objectivity”, which narrow people’s vision and ways of being in the world. Formulating what I thought were … Continue reading Anything Can Go – Interview With Paul Feyerabend in English
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Chartism & Skepticism
"Chartism: ...Policymakers fall somewhere on the spectrum of pro-chart and anti-chart. Pro-chartists think that data can explain the world, and the more we have the better. But anti-chartists think that relentless data accumulation is misguided because it offers false certainty and misses the big picture interpretation. As the saying goes: "More fiction is written in … Continue reading Chartism & Skepticism
