epistemological anarchism

epistemological anarchism

the doctrine that there is no certain epistemological grounding, that there exists no single ‘scientific method’, that ‘anything goes’ (methodological anarchism) - see FEYERABEND, METHODOLOGICAL PLURALISM.
Collins Dictionary of Sociology, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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Here Feyerabend argued for 'epistemological anarchism'.
Paul Feyerabend: The Tyranny of Science
When she describes instances of the official crackdown on occultism as a rigid empiricism's response to acts of "epistemological anarchism" (p.
A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern

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