The Open and Closed Mind contained no coherent evidence for its central thesis

Evidence

The inviolability is such that with all the shelves in all the libraries in Western academia, there is not yet anything like a coherent, extensive, or even reasonably adequate narrative of the genealogy of the Distinction, or of the conditions of felicity that made it so powerful and performative. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 361 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: No adequate genealogy of the mind-nature distinction has ever been written — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 361; Methodological critique can disprove a proof but never disprove a theory — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 642

Broader Connections

• No adequate genealogy of the mind-nature distinction has ever been written #complicates (0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 361