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Against Method appeared in 1975 with the subtitle “Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge”. It was meant as one half of a joint book with Imre Lakatos, who was to defend scientific rationality; Lakatos died in 1974 and his part was never written. The core of the book is a case study of Galileo, intended to show that science advanced by breaking methodological rules – through rhetoric and ad hoc moves as well as observation and argument. “Anything goes” is offered less as a method than as the only rule that survives such a history. Critics charged Feyerabend with relativism and irrationalism; he revised the book in 1988 and 1993.

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• On Liberty1859 · John Stuart Mill
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• Logika odkrycia naukowego1934 · Karl Popper