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    Supports→New scientific research typically begins from proto-ideas of religious or philosophical origin rather than from empirical data.

    Researchers cannot begin from gathering experimental data because they lack the conceptual framework to observe meaningfully.

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    However, when a specialist starts research on phenomena of a new kind she is in the same situation as a layperson: she does not know what and how to observe. She does not recognize certain forms, she experiences chaos in which it is very hard to grasp anything constant. This is why—as it was mentioned above—scholars cannot start from gathering experimental data. Fleck also stresses that there is no spontaneous creation of concepts (1935a, II.1). This is why a new research starts usually—although

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