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I found Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" helpful on this topic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions ht
by scarecrowbob 5mo ago
I found Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" helpful on this topic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...
- readthenotes1 5mo agoI was shocked that the article did not mention Kuhn as the source for the two paradigms. Has he been forgotten already? And of course if you haven't read that book, it's insightful and easy
- ojbyrne 5mo agoIt’s almost like a corollary to the Douglas Adam’s principle referred to in the article - if there’s a theory about social behavior formulated before you’re born, it’s fair game to reformulate it.
- scarecrowbob 5mo agoAs much as I enjoy DA, Kuhn takes it a little further- it's almost like folks live in completely different worlds because the worlds are made up of fundamentally different basic parts...