Christian Thomas Kohl The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science

The advance of any reasonably developed science is twofold. There is the
advance of detailed knowledge within the method prescribed by the
reigning working hypothesis; and there is the rectification of the working
hypothesis dictated by the inadequacies of the current orthodoxy.
Sometimes it is necessary for a science to entertain concurrently two –
or more – working hypotheses, each with its own success and its own
failure. Such hypotheses are contradictory as stated; and science awaits
their conciliation by the production of a working hypothesis with a wider
sweep. When a new working hypothesis is proposed, it must be criticized
from its own point of view. For example, it is futile to object to the
Newtonian dynamics that, on the Aristotelian system, the loose things on
the earth's surface must be left behind by the earth's motion.
Philosophy has been afflicted by the dogmatic fallacy, which is the belief
that the principles of its working hypotheses are clear, obvious and
irreformable. Then, as a reaction from this fallacy, it has swayed to the
other extreme which is the fallacy of discarding method. Philosophers
boast that they uphold no system. They are then a prey to the delusive
clarities of detached expressions which it is the very purpose of their
science to surmount. Another type of reaction is to assume, often tacitly,
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