 However, no perfect correspondence between these categories exists, and many scholars critiqued as "positivists" are actually postpositivists.One scholar has described this debate in terms of the social construction of the "other", with each side defining the other by what it is "not" rather than what it "is", and then proceeding to attribute far greater homogeneity to their opponents than actually exists.Thus, it is better to understand this not as a debate but as two different arguments