Saturday, April 21, 2007

Hermetic paranoia

What a lovely term! Hermetic paranoia! Perhaps it means that I've got too many ideas coming at me.

"Most intellects are honed, not blunted, by use. Too frequent a resort to argument by analogy can lead to a hermetic paranoia in which everything is seen as part of a vast and secret conspiracy."
Fisher, 2004: 80

I think I've got it from reading too much for my literature search and attempt to write the second draft of the literature review for my supervisors.

Fisher, C, 2004, "Researching and writing a dissertation", FT Prentice Hall

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