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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."

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

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

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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.

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

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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.
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Paul Feyerabend

Paul Feyerabend
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Born: January 13, 1924
Died: February 11, 1994 (aged 70)
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