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Comment author: Cthulhoo 02 August 2013 07:33:43AM 9 points [-]

Whatever alleged "truth" is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage!

Anton Lavey, The Satanic Bible, The Book of Satan II

Comment author: FiftyTwo 04 August 2013 03:45:16PM 2 points [-]

Isn't it better to examine a falsehood to discover why it was so popular and appealing before throwing it away?

Comment author: AndHisHorse 04 August 2013 07:18:34PM 6 points [-]

Then, to continue the metaphor, we should study it by telescope from afar, not as a present and influential entity in our own sphere of existence, but rather a distant body, informative but impotent, the object of curiosity rather than devotion.

Comment author: satt 24 August 2013 11:03:06AM 1 point [-]

Much of science, including social science, tries to explain things we all know, but science can also make a contribution by establishing that some of the things we all think we know simply are not so. In that case, social science may also try to explain why we think we know things that are not so, adding as it were a piece of knowledge to replace the one that has been taken away.

— Jon Elster, Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences, p. 16

Comment author: ChrisPine 04 August 2013 05:30:38PM 0 points [-]

Only if they won't let you throw it away.

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