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Feyerabend is an iconoclast striking at the heart of dogmatism. Rules have exceptions, question traditions, test the status quo. Be a skeptic. Children experiment with their environment, test the rules, look for other ways to do things and explanations for why things are as they are. This is how they learn. Adults must do the same. He's being intentional provocative to make a point, like Nietzsche.

"Camus may have been a less professional philosopher than Sarte, but it is far from clear he was a worse one. What is certainly true is that he was a more honest man, and his authority as an intellectual lay in that fact, as opposed to the deceitful constructions with which Sarte managed to mislead himself and his followers."