ABSTRACT
Traditionally, the advancement of scientific work is associated with the notion of ‘discovery’. In so far as social sciences are based in some sense on pragmatic knowledge, it would seem probable that advancement towards new understanding is not entirely a function of scientifically formalised procedures. We should expect, in other words, that the discovery process extends into the realm of pragmatic experience. The present chapter intends to follow up these clues. Most of it involves the breaking of new ground and is therefore extremely tentative.2
