preconceptions begin to show evidence of being in conflict with one another and hidden assumptions are uncovered; it also happens when operative assumptions are found to be at variance with what we are investigating, or when they even prevent us at the very start from giving serious consideration to it. For example, if we work with the assumption that the laws of nature must be timelessly and necessarily true, we cut out any notion of contingence from our understanding of the universe and its rational
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