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When one agrees to contribute to a volume such as this*, it seems reasonable to assume that defending one’s own ideas is a generally acceptable approach to adopt. Whether or not it is worthwhile to do so in a particular instance depends upon the existence of considerable disagreement over sufficiently interesting or controversial ideas. I find the issues at hand to be both interesting and controversial.
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Gaston, J. (1984). On the Sociology of Belief, Knowledge, and Science. In: Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7688-8_10
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