Paul Feyerabend - Reality Quotes

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Many "educated citizens" take it for granted that reality is what scientists say it is and that other opinions may be recorded, but need not be taken seriously. But science offers not one story, it offers many; the stories clash and their relation to a story-independent "reality" is as problematic as the relation of the Homeric epics to an alleged "Homeric world."

Paul Feyerabend

A Universal Good should reflect the reality of the individual benefits that are collected under its name, not the other way around.

Paul Feyerabend

Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality

Paul Feyerabend

So far Unitarian realism claiming to possess positive knowledge about Ultimate Reality has succeeded only by excluding large areas of phenomena or by declaring, without proof, that they could be reduced to basic theory, which, in this connection, means elementary particle physics.

Paul Feyerabend

Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable.

Paul Feyerabend