Matthew Roche

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in his magnum opus Truth and Method, the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer urged that prejudice-free knowledge is neither possible nor desirable. Gadamer argues that prejudices are not necessarily vicious, and that the Enlightenment had a ‘prejudice against prejudice’.12 Prejudices cannot be done away with: they are replaced only with other prejudices, sometimes better, sometimes worse,
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
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