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7.13 Kuhn Chapter 9
7.13 Kuhn Chapter 9
What is a Scientific
Revolution?
It is a noncumulative developmental episode
constellation.
One (or more) camps seek to institute a new political
order.
logically compatible.
In the process of being assimilated, the second
must displace the first.
genuinely cumulative.
Cumulative acquisition of novelty is not only rare in fact
revolution.
about nature.
The prevalent view maintains that a new paradigm
science
the need to change the meaning of established and familiar