Thomas Kuhn Paradigm Shift | Simply Psychology - 0 views
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Thomas Kuhn argued that science does not evolve gradually towards truth.
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Science has a paradigm which remains constant before going through a paradigm shift when current theories can’t explain some phenomenon, and someone proposes a new theory.
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A scientific revolution occurs when: (i) the new paradigm better explains the observations, and offers a model that is closer to the objective, external reality; and (ii) the new paradigm is incommensurate with the old.
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