major applied-science discoveries come at the cost of diminished theoretical awareness

Evidence

That the violence of facts has become so outrageous that all theory, and even true theory, makes a mockery of them - this is burned like a mark into the organ of theory itself, language. The practice which takes away theory’s power emerges as an element of destruction within theory, without be the saviour from. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1100 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Practice undermines theory from within as a destructive element — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1100; Empirical-analytic sciences secretly carry a technical cognitive interest masked as value-freedom. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2423

Broader Connections

• Practice undermines theory from within as a destructive element #corroborates (0.85) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1100