 Echoes of the "positivist" and "antipositivist" debate persist today, though this conflict is hard to define.Authors writing in different epistemological perspectives do not phrase their disagreements in the same terms and rarely actually speak directly to each other.To complicate the issues further, few practising scholars explicitly state their epistemological commitments, and their epistemological position thus has to be guessed from other sources such as choice of methodology or theory.