The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1996-12-15
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Retrieved
- Jun 8, 2012
- ISBN
- xnjS401VuF
2 memes from this reference
Scientific Revolutions Don't Change Reality
The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists adopt new instruments and look in new places. even more important, during revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in…
The Problem with Paradigms
The success of the paradigm... is at the start largely a promise of success ... Normal science consists in the actualization of that promise... Mopping up operations are what engage most scientists throughout their careers. They constitute what I am here calling normal science... That enterprise seems an attempt to…