Generalized steps in a scientific revolution ?
Thomas Kuhn
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Generalized steps in a scientific revolution ?
Thomas Kuhn
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
translation: process of reversal in ideas, or worldviews about the natural order.
| anomalies | Stasis in species | stages in overthrowing established science |
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fossils |
unexplainable observations |
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marsupials |
inexplicable discoveries |
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domestic breeds |
inconclusive experiments |
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finch beaks |
unexplained findings |
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mutability of species |
different interpretation |
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new theory replaces the older one |
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
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a pattern of explanation new theories or laws, template.
Aristotelian | Chinese | Mathematical | Newtonian | Darwinian | Genes
Examples:
Evolution by means of natural selection
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.
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.
