@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 28 Mar 2024}, author = {Feyerabend,Paul}, subject = {Idealization}, note = {I 81 Approximation Method/Qualitative Difficulties/Feyerabend: Examples of reduction are: reduction of the wave packet (I 82), heliocentric theory at the time of Galileo. Ad-hoc approximations to many quantitative results of the theories are not correct and surprisingly qualitatively inadequate. E.g., von Neumann replaced the semi-intuitive concepts of Dirac and Bohr with incredibly complicated concepts. The relation to experience becomes more obscure than ever. >Experience, >Observation, >Explanation, >Reduction, >Reductionism.}, note = { Feyerabend I Paul Feyerabend Against Method. Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge, London/New York 1971 German Edition: Wider den Methodenzwang Frankfurt 1997 Feyerabend II P. Feyerabend Science in a Free Society, London/New York 1982 German Edition: Erkenntnis für freie Menschen Frankfurt 1979 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=381496} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=381496} }