“We need a dream-world in order to discover the features of the real world we think we inhabit.”

—  Paul Karl Feyerabend, book Against Method

Source: Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge

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Austrian-born philosopher of science 1924–1994

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