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Is There a Conspiracy?
The idea is that facts are facts only if they're seen in respect to a particular hypothesis. John Stuart Mill and William Whittle were laying the ground for epistemology and philosophy of science. Darwin was maddened by this thing because he thought that that's exactly what he was doing, collecting all these kinds of evidence in service of a particular theory.