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21508 | Anomalies challenge the claim that the basic explanations are actually basic [Bonjour] |
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. | |
From: Laurence Bonjour (The Structure of Empirical Knowledge [1985], 5.3) | |
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. |