ticularly
the last five hundred years - are anything to go by.

As these historians and philosophers of science have pointed out, choosing
the framework is as much a political as a rational process, and involves
persuading the community that the framework is the 'right' one. Typically it
involves a choice between several competing theories. Furthermore this is
only ever successful if the framework is sufficiently good (where this is
characterised in a number of ways). I'm not sure how this qualifies as
inte