This one could do with expansion and/or contextualisation. A quick Google only turns up several pages of just the bare quote (including on a National Institue of Health .gov page!) - what was the original source? Anyone?
Well, I deliberately left out the source because I didn’t think it would play well in this Peoria of thought—it’s from his book of essays Farewell to Reason. Link to gbooks with some context.
Well, I deliberately left out the source because I didn’t think it would play well in this Peoria of thought—it’s from his book of essays Farewell to Reason. Link to gbooks with some context.
We’ve had rationality quotes before from C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterson, and Jack Chick among others. I don’t think people are going to complain because of generic context issues even if Feyerabend did say some pretty silly stuff.
Can you please explain what you mean by calling LW a “Peoria of thought” and why you believe it is one? It doesn’t sound good, and if you’ve found a problem I’d like to know about it and address it.
Pretty much any forum tends to evolve into a bit of an echo chamber. I don’t think there is any general solution to it other than for whole forums to be bubbling into and out of existence.
-- Paul Feyerabend
This one could do with expansion and/or contextualisation. A quick Google only turns up several pages of just the bare quote (including on a National Institue of Health .gov page!) - what was the original source? Anyone?
Well, I deliberately left out the source because I didn’t think it would play well in this Peoria of thought—it’s from his book of essays Farewell to Reason. Link to gbooks with some context.
We’ve had rationality quotes before from C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterson, and Jack Chick among others. I don’t think people are going to complain because of generic context issues even if Feyerabend did say some pretty silly stuff.
Can you please explain what you mean by calling LW a “Peoria of thought” and why you believe it is one? It doesn’t sound good, and if you’ve found a problem I’d like to know about it and address it.
Pretty much any forum tends to evolve into a bit of an echo chamber. I don’t think there is any general solution to it other than for whole forums to be bubbling into and out of existence.