Editing Falsifiability (section)

===Epistemological anarchism vs the scientific method===

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[[Paul Feyerabend]] rejected any prescriptive methodology at all. He rejected Lakatos's argument for [[Ad hoc hypothesis|''ad hoc'' hypothesis]], arguing that science would not have progressed without making use of any and all available methods to support new theories. He rejected any reliance on a scientific method, along with any special authority for science that might derive from such a method.{{sfn|Martin|2017}} He said that if one is keen to have a universally valid methodological rule, [[epistemological anarchism]] or ''anything goes'' would be the only candidate.{{sfn|Feyerabend|1993}} For Feyerabend, any special status that science might have, derives from the social and physical value of the results of science rather than its method.{{sfn | Broad | 1979 }}