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Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. “No natural history can be interpreted in the absence of at least some implicit body of intertwined theoretical and methodological belief that permits selection, evaluation and criticism.”. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
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Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions “No natural history can be interpreted in the absence of at least some implicit body of intertwined theoretical and methodological belief that permits selection, evaluation and criticism.”
Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions “…[O]ne of the things a scientific community acquires with a paradigm is a criterion for choosing problems that, while the paradigm is taken for granted, can be assumed to have solutions. To a great extent, these are the only problems that the community will admit is scientific or encourage its members to undertake
Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions The transition from a paradigm in crisis to a new one for which a new tradition of normal science can emerge is far from a cumulative process, one achieved by an articulation or extension of the old paradigm. Rather it is a reconstruction of the field from new fundamentals, a reconstruction that changes some to the field’s most elementary theoretical generalizations as well as many of its paradigm methods and applications.
