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    Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge is a 1975 book by Austrian philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend. The central thesis of...
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  • The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has been referred to while doing science since at least the 17th century. Historically...
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    published in Against Method. His last lectures along with parts of his correspondence with Paul Feyerabend have been published in For and Against Method. Lakatos's...
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    and the University of Trento (1992). Feyerabend's most famous work is Against Method (1975), wherein he argued that there are no universally valid methodological...
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    methods. However, the term can also refer to the methods themselves or to the philosophical discussion of associated background assumptions. A method...
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    Clifford Smith, Jr. (born March 2, 1971), known professionally as Method Man, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. He is a member of the...
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  • reprinted in later editions of Against Method. The book largely develops arguments from the first edition of Against Method and spells out their political...
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    depends on the good judgment of the scientists. Feyerabend wrote in "Against Method" that Lakatos's methodology of scientific research programmes is epistemological...
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  • is merely a societal set of myths based on societal assumptions. In Against Method, Paul Feyerabend writes, "The similarities between science and myth...
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  • A suicide method is any means by which a person may choose to end their life. Suicide attempts do not always result in death, and a non-fatal suicide attempt...
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    A Condorcet method (English: /kɒndɔːrˈseɪ/; French: [kɔ̃dɔʁsɛ]) is an election method that elects the candidate who wins a majority of the vote in every...
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  • Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish is published. Paul Feyerabend's Against Method is published. Ian Hacking's The Emergence of Probability is published...
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  • other venues and was published by Verso Books, which also published Against Method and Science in a Free Society. The primary goal of the book is to trace...
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  • of Science as a Working Hypothesis)" (1974), by Paul Feyerabend in Against Method (1975) and later works, by John Dupré in "The Disunity of Science" (1983)...
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    secant method is a root-finding algorithm that uses a succession of roots of secant lines to better approximate a root of a function f. The secant method can...
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  • Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and anarchist Paul Feyerabend's book Against Method. Hill's website also calls the fiction of Jorge Luis Borges as an example...
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    finisher according to one method is eliminated in each round. However, unlike in instant-runoff, each round has electors voting against their least-favorite...
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  • Kerry Washington, Omar Sy, Mark Strong, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Cliff "Method Man" Smith. Shadow Force was released theatrically by Lionsgate on May 9...
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  • Scientism (category Scientific method)
    scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality. While the term was defined originally to mean "methods and attitudes...
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    The Duckworth–Lewis–Stern method (DLS method or DLS) previously known as the Duckworth–Lewis method (D/L) is a mathematical formulation designed to calculate...
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  • insemination. This method was used by an estimated 38 million couples worldwide in 1991. Coitus interruptus does not protect against sexually transmitted...
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  • from Feyerabend who states in books such as Problems of Empiricism and Against Method that if the new theory deviates into new areas, this is not a problem...
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  • nihilism Nihilism Skepticism Ajñana Feyerabend, Paul (1999). For and against Method. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 395. ISBN 0-226-46775-9. Dancy...
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  • The D'Hondt method, also called the Jefferson method or the greatest divisors method, is an apportionment method for allocating seats in parliaments among...
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    Scientific misconduct Empirical limits in science Feyerabend, Paul (1993). Against Method. London: Verso. ISBN 978-0-86091-646-8. Gould, Stephen J (1987). Time's...
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  • Kierkegaard's Either/Or, the rotation method is the mechanism used by higher-level aesthetes in order to avoid boredom. The method is an essential hedonistic aspect...
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    The Copeland or Llull method is a ranked-choice voting system based on counting each candidate's pairwise wins and losses. In the system, voters rank candidates...
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  • Delphi method or Delphi technique (/ˈdɛlfaɪ/ DEL-fy; also known as Estimate-Talk-Estimate or ETE) is a structured communication technique or method, originally...
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  • chemistry, a Job plot, otherwise known as the method of continuous variation or Job's method, is a method used in analytical chemistry to determine the...
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  • about methods used to compare players from different generations who never competed against each other. The most well known statistical method was devised...
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