It may, however, be appropriate to point out that the persisting bipolar conflict in the field between humanists and behavioralists conceals a lively polemic within both camps and perhaps particularly among the so-called behavioralists. Among the modernists neologisms burst like roman candles in the sky, and wars of epistemological legitimacy are fought. The devotees of rigor and theories of the middle range reject more speculative general theory as non-knowledge; and the devotees of general theory attack those with more limited scope as technicians, as answerers in search of questions.
From Gabriel Almond, “Political Theory and Political Science,” American Political Science Review 60,4 (1966), p. 878.
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