“…The goal of this paper is to take these descriptions one step further and ask what they can tell us about progress in their respective fields. While Nefdt (2016aNefdt ( , 2016bNefdt ( , 2019 lays out modelling continuity in generativism quite convincingly, he is hesitant in passing judgement on the ontological breaches he discusses (which I describe in some detail in chapter 4.3 below). 27 If we want to ponder scientific progress, however, we need something to measure these ontological breaches against; something by virtue of which we are then able to say: "Theory A is better than Theory B, and hence the ontological breach", without ignoring the fact that what counts as better, truer or more real is, in part, theory-dependent (Kuhn, 1970(Kuhn, [1962).…”