ABSTRACT
The aim of methodology, then, is to describe and analyze these methods, throwing light on their limitations and resources, clarifying their presuppositions and consequences, relating their potentialities to the twilight zone at the frontiers of knowledge. It is to venture generalizations from the success of particular techniques, suggesting new applications, and to unfold the specific bearings of logical and metaphysical principles on concrete problems, suggesting new formulations. The more realistic danger is that some preferred set of techniques will come to be identified with scientific method as such. The pressures of fad and fashion are as great in science, for all its logic, as in other areas of culture. The division of labor in the economy of science is, after all, a historical product and not the reflection of a logical necessity. As science progresses, old partnerships like natural philosophy or political economy are dissolved, and new ones like physical chemistry or social psychology come into being.
