If rationality consists in believing only what we can reasonably presume to be true, and if we define "truth" in its classical nonpragmatic sense, then science is (and will forever remain) irrational.


Progress and Its Problems: Toward a Theory of Scientific Growth, Chapter Four (p. 125), University of California Press. 1977

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If rationality consists in believing only what we can reasonably presume to be true, and if we define truth in its classical nonpragmatic sense, then ...

If rationality consists in believing only what we can reasonably presume to be true, and if we define truth in its classical nonpragmatic sense, then ...

If rationality consists in believing only what we can reasonably presume to be true, and if we define truth in its classical nonpragmatic sense, then ...

If rationality consists in believing only what we can reasonably presume to be true, and if we define truth in its classical nonpragmatic sense, then ...