Generalized steps in a scientific revolution ?

Thomas Kuhn

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

cycle

translation: process of reversal in ideas, or worldviews about the natural order.

classical line

"normal science" referred to as the accepted beliefs.

 anomalies  Stasis in species  stages in overthrowing established science

 1

 
fossils
unexplainable observations
 2
marsupials
inexplicable discoveries

3

 
domestic breeds
inconclusive experiments

 4

 
finch beaks
unexplained findings

5

 
mutability of species
different interpretation

 6

 
Darwin & Wallace
new theory replaces the older one

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kuhn rival hypotheses change in zeitgeist

emergence of new worldview

"new paradigm" is a set of related concepts that amount to rearranged ideas in a novel intellectual realm based on a series of reordered hypotheses explaining the world

or

a pattern of explanation new theories or laws, template.

tealrule

Aristotelian | Chinese | Mathematical | Newtonian | Darwinian | Genes

tealrule

Examples:

Laws of planetary motion

planetssolar

Laws of gravitation

solargravitation

 

Atomic theory of matter

earth

Laws of Thermodynamics

trevithick engine

Evolution by means of natural selection

Laws of inheritance

replication

Quantum mechanics

07

Relativity,

special - spacetime

general - acceleration

Plate tectonics and the Earth crust's motion in forming terrains that assemble into landscapes.

Comparing the Newtonian and Darwinian Revolutions in knowledge of nature.

Critics of Kuhn assessed.

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Paradigm the meaning technically now is the typical example or pattern that can encompass a wide array of more specific examples of the general rule. Originally in language learning, the pattern formulated in a table by which declensions of nouns or tenses of verbs are applied to varied words. Serving as a model for other words of the same declension and conjugation pattern. Synonyms: pattern, example, sample, typical rendering, archetype, or model. 15th century Latin from Greek.

 

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