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Full Idea
The distinctive significance of anomalies lies in the fact that they undermine the claim of the allegedly basic explanatory principles to be genuinely basic.
Gist of Idea
Anomalies challenge the claim that the basic explanations are actually basic
Source
Laurence Bonjour (The Structure of Empirical Knowledge [1985], 5.3)
Book Ref
Bonjour,Laurence: 'The Structure of Empirical Knowledge' [Harvard 1985], p.99
A Reaction
This seems plausible, suggesting that (rather than an anomaly flatly 'falsifying' a theory) an anomaly may just demand a restructuring or reconceptualising of the theory.