The proponents of competing paradigms practice their trades in different worlds.
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Thomas-kun
American historian and philosopher of science (1922-1996). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) introduced "paradigm shift" — now an English idiom — and showed science advances by revolutions, not accumulation.
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Thomas-kun's Other Quotes
A scientific revolution is a non-cumulative developmental episode in which an older paradigm is replaced in whole or in part by an incompatible new one.
Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.
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A scientific revolution is a non-cumulative developmental episode in which an older paradigm is replaced in whole or in part by an incompatible new one.
-- Thomas-kun
Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
-- Thomas-kun
What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.
-- Thomas-kun