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FEYERABEND, PAUL

1924–1994

Against Method (Anything Goes, In the Lexicon)

Feyerabend: science makes progress not by following a method but by violating every method, in turn. CoCA practices methodological pluralism by doctrine. The Lexicon admits Hegel beside Han, Aquinas beside Anscombe, Žižek beside Zhuangzi. We do not synthesize them. We file them. The reader picks the method that fits the day. The institution does not arbitrate. The institution shelves.

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