So how do scientists gain knowledge, if not by using the scientific method?pic.twitter.com/KaSVdLklhh
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You are welcome. There is indeed a reason he is valued by valued realists such as @StathisPsillos 
"Preferring science to witchcraft" smuggles in the idea that that you can demarcate science. Feyerabend shows the great scientists didn't make their choices based on a rational or accepted standard.
Occult alchemists contributed greatly to chemistry, it is only after the fact that their methods and motivations are stripped, and due to their success, their contributions to our base of knowledge are assigned to "Science"
Interesting word choice- absurd and unbelievable, but not "wrong." The above quote is actually making a very Feyerabendian point by allowing an "absurd position" to be "intellectually valuable"
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