Weekly Quotes
1st April
Knowledge so conceived is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges towards an ideal view; it is not a gradual approach to truth. It is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy-tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others in greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.
Knowledge so conceived is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges towards an ideal view; it is not a gradual approach to truth. It is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy-tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others in greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.
Against Method (1975), Verso Books, 1980. p.30.
Knowledge so conceived is not a process that converges towards an ideal view; it is an ever-increasing ocean of alternatives, each of them forcing the others into greater articulation, all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our mental faculties.
Knowledge so conceived is not a process that converges towards an ideal view; it is an ever-increasing ocean of alternatives, each of them forcing the others into greater articulation, all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our mental faculties.
"Reply to criticism", in: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 2, 1965. Reprinted in: Realism, Rationalism and Scientific Method (Philosophical Papers, Vol. 1), Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1981. p.107.