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''Against Method'' is the 1975 book by [[Paul Feyerabend]] that launched [[Epistemological Anarchism|epistemological anarchism]] into mainstream philosophy of science. Its central claim is methodological pluralism: no single set of rules governs scientific progress, and the history of science is a history of rule-breaking, propaganda, and conceptual innovation rather than patient hypothesis-testing. The book's structure mirrors its thesis — it is deliberately unsystematic, using historical case studies to show that what philosophers call 'the scientific method' is a retrospective fiction imposed on a messier, more creative process. The book remains a key text in [[Philosophy of Science|philosophy of science]] and a provocation to anyone who believes that [[Rationality|rational inquiry]] requires universal norms.

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