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...FOR ITS DEFENDERS WILL DO WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY SEEN SCIENTISTS DOING WHEN CONFRONTED BY ANOMALY. THEY WILL DEVISE NUMEROUS ARTICULATIONS AND AD HOC MODIFICATIONS OF THEIR THEORY IN ORDER TO ELIMINATE ANY APPARENT CONFLICT. MANY OF THE RELEVANT MODIFICATIONS AND QUALIFICATIONS ARE, IN FACT, ALREADY IN THE LITERATURE. IF, THEREFORE, THESE EPISTEMOLOGICAL COUNTER-INSTANCES ARE TO CONSTITUTE MORE THAN A MINOR IRRITANT, THAT WILL BE BECAUSE THEY HELP TO PERMIT THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW AND DIFFERENT ANALYSIS OF SCIENCE WITHIN WHICH THEY ARE NO LONGER A SOURCE OF TROUBLE. -THOMAS KUHN- -THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION-