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In academia much bogus knowledge is tolerated in the name of academic freedom – which is like allowing for the sale of contaminated food in the name of free enterprise. I submit that such tolerance is suicidal: that the serious students must be protected against the “anything goes” crowd.

— Mario Bunge Matter and Mind (2010)

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At all times pseudoprofound aphorisms have been more popular than rigorous arguments.

Evaluating Philosophies (2012)

The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis — the most out of the least.

If one aims to judge political movements, their deeds are far more important than their speeches, which are often masking rather than revealing.

Emergence and Convergence (2003)

To put it roughly and metaphorically, an approach is a way of looking at things (e.g., people) or ideas (e.g., conjectures), and therefore also of handling problems concerning them.

‎Ruben Ardila (2012)

A conceptual model is neither idle nor faithful: it is, or rather it is supposed to be and so taken until further notice, an approximate representation of a real thing.

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