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PREMIUM-Ep. 281: Paul Feyerabend's Anarchist Philosophy of Science (Part Two)

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How to Solve Conflicts Like That

In the same way that you don't use logic to get a child to be logical, the sources of a child's rationality are themselves irrational. The same thing goes for human, for changes in human institutions. So i take back my claim that you were oversating how far he went. Rereading this section really quickly, your summary, i think, was right on. You know, at the end he says, getting to the epistemological part in the middle of 17 he says, creation of a thing and full understanding of a correct idea of the thing are very often parts of one and same, indivisible process. It is guided rather by a vague urge, by a

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