In a lot of ways, this is similar to the ‘one weird trick’ style of marketing so many lampoon. Assuming that you summarized Kuhn and Feyerabend correctly, it looks like: one weird trick to solve all of science, Popper: ‘just falsify things’; Kuhn: ‘just find Kantian paradigms for the field’; Feyerabend: ‘just realize the only patterns are that there aren’t any patterns.’
People like this sort of thing because its easy to understand (and I just made the same sort of simplification for this sentence.). Science is hard to get right, and people can only keep in mind a few factors at a time -literally since our working memory is quite small. Splitting things up usefully and then grinding away at all of those sub-problems is quite tricky too, and not especially motivating.
Long-term memory isn’t the most reliable either. I’d say write it down, but then, there’s nothing that prevents thought like checklists...and other forms of it aren’t clear, so...?
Nothing can be done besides continually striving to become better, knowing that it is a temptation to stop and just use the shiniest tool that seems to work.
In a lot of ways, this is similar to the ‘one weird trick’ style of marketing so many lampoon. Assuming that you summarized Kuhn and Feyerabend correctly, it looks like: one weird trick to solve all of science, Popper: ‘just falsify things’; Kuhn: ‘just find Kantian paradigms for the field’; Feyerabend: ‘just realize the only patterns are that there aren’t any patterns.’
People like this sort of thing because its easy to understand (and I just made the same sort of simplification for this sentence.). Science is hard to get right, and people can only keep in mind a few factors at a time -literally since our working memory is quite small. Splitting things up usefully and then grinding away at all of those sub-problems is quite tricky too, and not especially motivating.
Long-term memory isn’t the most reliable either. I’d say write it down, but then, there’s nothing that prevents thought like checklists...and other forms of it aren’t clear, so...?
Nothing can be done besides continually striving to become better, knowing that it is a temptation to stop and just use the shiniest tool that seems to work.