Anomalies are important in science because

A) they present practitioners with unpopular, nonteleological assumptions.

B) discovery commences with the appearance of anomaly against the background of a paradigm.

C) they force scientists to disagree about what is a problem and what is a solution.

D) they reinforce the practice of normal science.


B

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