The decision to reject one paradigm is always simultaneously the decision to accept another, and the judgment leading to that decision involves the comparison of both paradigms with nature and with each other.
Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific commu… - Thomas Kuhn
Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific commu…
- Thomas Kuhn
Every important idea in science sounds strange at first. - Thomas Kuhn
Every important idea in science sounds strange at first.
In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation. - Thomas Kuhn
In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.
The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience. Like the gestalt switch, it must … - Thomas Kuhn
The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience. Like the gestalt switch, it must …
We see the world in terms of our theories. - Thomas Kuhn
We see the world in terms of our theories.
Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a … - Thomas Kuhn
Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a …
Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data. - Thomas Kuhn
Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists. - Thomas Kuhn
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.
Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates … - Thomas Kuhn
Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates …
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