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Science as anarchism


“Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.”
(Feyerabend, 1975)

“I often wished I had never written that fucking book”
(Feyerabend, 1995)


Author AndiPosted on 1 April 202211 September 2022Tags anarchism, methodology, philosophy, quotations

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  • Writing a song “is an act of self-murder”: Nick Cave on ChatGPT
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  • Dealing with confounding in observational studies
  • “A Handbook of Integer Sequences” Fifty Years Later
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