The Use and Abuse of Imagination: A Reply to Samuel A. Bleicher

Michael D. Wallace and J. David Singer

International Organization, 1971, vol. 25, issue 4, 953-957

Abstract: It has often been observed that recent converts to any belief system tend to be among its most zealous adherents, and science (despite its emphasis on objectivity and detachment) has proved no exception. As the canons of scientific inquiry begin to take hold in each field of human knowledge, there have appeared those who seem, as it were, more royalist than the king. For these scholars the rules of scientific inference are not guidelines to be used with care but dogmas to be pursued unswervingly; to them science is not, as someone once expressed it, “attenuated common sense” but a totally different and rather severe regimen of thought.

Date: 1971
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