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Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
No natural history can be interpreted in the
absence of at least some implicit body of
intertwined theoretical and methodological belief
that permits selection, evaluation and criticism.
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Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
One of the things a scientific community
acquires with a paradigm is a criterion for
choosing problems that, while the paradigm is
taken for granted, can be assumed to have
solutions. To a great extent, these are the only
problems that the community will admit is
scientific or encourage its members to undertake
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Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The transition from a paradigm in crisis to a new
one for which a new tradition of normal science
can emerge is far from a cumulative process, one
achieved by an articulation or extension of the
old paradigm. Rather it is a reconstruction of
the field from new fundamentals, a reconstruction
that changes some to the fields most elementary
theoretical generalizations as well as many of
its paradigm methods and applications.