Редактирование: Deathism (раздел)

=== Scientific progress ===
Physicist Max Planck touted Planck’s Principle:<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle Planck's principle]</ref>
<blockquote>A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents '''eventually die''', and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.</blockquote>
Many paradigm shifts have only occurred after the death of a generation of incumbent scientists.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2015/12/21/are-scientists-blocking-their-own-progress/?utm_term=.2a15fdd7e761 Are scientists blocking their own progress? ]</ref> The implications is that the scientific establishment is driven significantly more by inertia than reason in some cases. Does this support death as catalysing function to scientific progress, or does it have more to say about the limits of scientific rationality?