Ok PB, I've now read all 19 pages of that thing Against Method and it's irrelevant to my point. My point, to heavily belabour the point, which seems difficult for people to grasp, is that mysticism and religion involve trusting somebody else to do the observing and thinking for you and accepting that your own puny brain and observational powers are not able to do the seeing and figuring out.
Trust me. That's what they say.
The central point about rationality, reason and science is that knowledge, observation and thinking and understanding can be done by anybody else [who has the necessary ability to think, observe etc - therefore a chimp or worm can't do the observing and thinking].
The point, to belabour it even more, is that a claim that something is a fact can be checked by somebody else. That's what science is about. That method book is about processes and blah blah blah, which seemed correct as far as I read, though he got one part wrong, which was that the west just got to be better by power. No. It got better by better thinking, not by power.
There's no persuading the Mindless Zombies of the world - they follow where they are led. Sheep need a shepherd.
We the Sheeple,
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