5 ideas
6601 | Science rules the globe because of colonising power, not inherent rationality [Feyerabend] |
5437 | The claim of hermeneutics to give knowledge through understanding is challenged by positivism [Mautner on Dilthey] |
2561 | For Feyerabend the meaning of a term depends on a whole theory [Feyerabend, by Rorty] |
5436 | Natural science seeks explanation; human sciences seek understanding [Dilthey, by Mautner] |
1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |