What’s Epistemological anarchism?
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Think about Back to the Future.
“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads”
The idea is that a lot of significant scientific progress was made while ignoring the accepted ways of understanding and studying science (the road)
Newton showed where Aristotle’s road came up short and built a new one that was better. Similarly, Einstein built a better road than Newton. Basically if there’s a scientist/physicist whose name you recognize, they probably ignored the road and built a better one.
So if you want to advance science, get off the road of established and “proven” methods, because off the road is where the undiscovered things are where you can build a better road to.
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