ABSTRACT
Most contemporary philosophers think epistemic foundationalism ran aground because it couldn’t distinguish theories from data-bearing statements for those theories. The current offer is a holistic continuum between theoreticity and observationality, one dense with sentences in the middle and bereft of them at the end-points. The result has done much for philosophers: An apparently naive picture of scientists inductively gathering incorrigible facts and settling them in a congenial theoretical network has been replaced by a vision of discontinuous mutations of theory/data bundles from one incommensurate form to another.
