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Establishing an appropriate attitude towards anomalies and deviations provides a powerful basis for identifying new problems and for the effective characterization of research problems. Negative or unexpected results may attain a significance that is as great as positive results because they provide the opportunity for the development of new, or even paradigm-shifting, hypotheses.
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Truran, P. (2013). Oh No! Something Doesn’t Fit!. In: Practical Applications of the Philosophy of Science. SpringerBriefs in Philosophy. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00452-5_4
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