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Against Method (1975)
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Without a constant misuse of language, there cannot be any discovery, any progress.
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First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group.
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Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience.
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Naive falsificationism takes it for granted that the laws of nature are manifest an not hidden beneath disturbances of considerable magnitude. Empiricism takes it for granted that sense experience is a better mirror of the world than pure thought. Praise of argument takes it for granted that the artifices of Reason give better results than the unchecked play of our emotions. Such assumptions may be perfectly plausible and even true. Still, one should occasionally put them to a test. Putting them to a test means that we stop using the methodology associated with them, start doing science in a different way and see what happens.
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My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits. The best way to show this is to demonstrate the limits and even the irrationality of some rules which she, or he, is likely to regard as basic. In the case that induction (including induction by falsification) this means demonstrating how well the counterinductive procedure can be supported by argument.
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No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain
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Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.
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Born:
January 13, 1924
Died:
February 11, 1994
(aged 70)
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