Generalized steps in a scientific revolution?
Thomas Kuhn
Generalized steps in a scientific revolution?
Thomas Kuhn
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 |
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
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pattern of explanation new theories or laws
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.
