Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to Paul Feyerabend (1924–1994),
Austrian -bornphilosopher ofscience .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Feyerabend + -ian
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Feyerabendian.
Examples
-
So, as against a rigid understanding of scientific ‘truth’ I’m putting forward an anarchical Feyerabendian sense of the term (with correlatives of ‘imaginative intellectual play’ and ‘extrapolation’).
-
Emphasizing the importance of natural variation, Mach had a Feyerabendian tolerance of nonscientific beliefs ” the familiar point being that it is better to tolerate some error than risk losing variation which might yield fruit later.
Ernst Mach Pojman, Paul 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.