ABSTRACT
‘Methodology is like medicine We tolerate it because it is supposed to be good for us, but secretly despise it. We would rather prescribe it for others than use it ourselves. The study of methodology takes place in a shadowy other-world, and its few participants are accepted as eccentrics. Only occasionally do our philosophical norms and our day-to-day practice clash head-on. For the most part we are too busy pushing out the frontiers of knowledge to question whether those frontiers are of any significance. 1
