Philosophy of science. Feyerabend argues against an idealized, reason-bound model of science. Scientists do not, he says, produce theories that match a given body of facts: every scientific theory is plagued with facts that don't match it. Why? Because facts all come with their own ideological assumptions. Much of the book is devoted to discussing Galileo's arguments for the motion of the earth.
Feyerabend thinks little of Popperian falsification, because it's far too strong: if we stuck to it, we'd have to throw out all theories.
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