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[In Alpbach] I also began suspecting that what counts in a public debate are not arguments but certain ways of presenting one's case. To test the suspicion I intervened in the debates defending absurd views with great assurance. I was consumed by fear -- after all, I was just a student surrounded by bigshots -- but having once attended an acting school I proved the case to my own satisfaction. The difficulties of scientific rationality were made very clear by.
[In Alpbach] I also began suspecting that what counts in a public debate are not arguments but certain ways of presenting one's case. To test the suspicion I intervened in the debates defending absurd views with great assurance. I was consumed by fear -- after all, I was just a student surrounded by bigshots -- but having once attended an acting school I proved the case to my own satisfaction. The difficulties of scientific rationality were made very clear by.
Science in a Free Society, London: Verso, 1978. p.109.
And where arguments do seem to have an effect, this is more often due to their physical repetition than to their semantic content.
And where arguments do seem to have an effect, this is more often due to their physical repetition than to their semantic content.
Against Method, Verso Books, 1980. p.24.
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