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Paul Feyerabend serves in the German military during WW II ultimately sustaining injuries that would render his legs useless. After the war he starts his studies in physics and philosophy.
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Feyerabend receives his doctoral after publishing a thesis and then proceeds to study at Cambridge. He studies under Karl Popper for a short time after rejecting Poppers philosophy of science and turning away from falsification in the science community.
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Before writing his book Feyerabend did read Kuhn's Manuscripts, and initially criticized his work as well as, also going against Lakatos's methods of research programs, and really denying that science had to be a structured completely ruled thing that only worked with one specific method and only within its own program or paradigm.
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Feyerabend publishes his book which aggressively attacked the philosophical community in which he was seen as a wild man with his ideas of "anything goes" simply put that science shouldn't be left to a set of rules, but should instead use an outside of the box mentality to further science. Because of these ideas he had initially shocked the community.
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