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In 1988, [[John Worrall]] responded to Laudan’s ''Science and Values'' in a paper titled "The Value of Fixed Methodology" (1988.) Worrall seeks to demonstrate how the reticulated model is incorrect by stating that when Laudan claims, methodological change to be real, he means only explicit methodological change is real. Implicit methodology to Worrall remains static. Worrall believed that, should methodological change truly be implicit, then the reticulated model could not provide an explanation for scientific change. If methodological change was purely explicit then it would not conflict with the hierarchical view and thus the reticulated model is not necessary.
In 1989 Laudan replies to Worrall’s criticism in "If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix it " (1989). Laudan points out that Worrall has conceded to the possibility of changes occurring in “implicit methods” and that these changeable methods are all subject to bigger principles of science which are unchangeable.
Worrall replies to Laudan in his "Fix it and be Damned: A Reply to Laudan " (1989). Worrall claims that he and Laudan do not have a disagreement on the level of methods changing but they do at the methodological level. Worrall believes that even if some of these beliefs can be changeable there are also ones that are unrevisable. It is under the purview of this fixed element that scientists can do science.
The changeability idea that methods of methods science change but do so in a rational fashion is one of the Laudan's lasting components of Laudan’s approach to scientific changecontributions.
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