Crucially, the field does not set out to promote relativism or to attack the scientific project; the aim of the researcher is to explain why one interpretation rather than another succeeds due to external social and historical circumstances.
至关重要的是，该领域并不是为了鼓吹相对主义或攻击科学项目；研究者的目的是為了解释，為何某種解釋——而非其他解釋——因為外部的社會及歷史環境而獲得成功。