{"id":818,"date":"2009-08-17T12:57:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T11:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=818"},"modified":"2009-08-17T12:58:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T11:58:22","slug":"quote-245","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2009\/08\/17\/quote-245\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote #245"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n<i><br \/>\nThe lesson I draw &#8230; is that a uniform &#8216;scientific view of the world&#8217; may be useful for people doing science &#8211; it gives them motivation without tying them down. It is like a flag. Though presenting a single pattern it makes people do many different things. However, it is a disaster for outsiders (philosophers, fly-by-night mystics, prophets of a New Age, the &#8220;educated public&#8221;). It suggests to them the most narrowminded religious commitment and encourages a similar narrowmindedness on their part<br \/>\n<\/i>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">Paul Feyerabend, in &#8216;Against Method&#8217; (third edition, chapter 19). &#8216;the &#8220;educated public&#8221; is included in the list in his &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tim.ethz.ch\/education\/courses\/courses_fs_2007\/course_docsem_fs_2007\/literature\/3_Feyerabend_conquest_of_abundance_part2_chap2.pdf\">Conquest of Abundance<\/a>&#8216;, in which this section is repeated with a few changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lesson I draw &#8230; is that a uniform &#8216;scientific view of the world&#8217; may be useful for people doing science &#8211; it gives them motivation without tying them down. It is like a flag. Though presenting a single pattern it makes people do many different things. However, it is a disaster for outsiders (philosophers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-dc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}