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Thomas S. Kuhn · 1962
Sequence ladder
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What this book knows
Scientific knowledge advances not by accumulation but by perceptual rupture: what you see depends on the paradigm you already inhabit.
mind-and-cognition
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.
VLA-5676B30B-RC-106Interpretation begins where perception ends. The two processes are not the same, and what perception leaves for interpretation depends drastically on prior experience and training.
VLA-5676B30B-RC-169transformation
Cumulative acquisition of unanticipated novelties proves to be an almost non-existent exception to the rule of scientific development.
VLA-5676B30B-RC-094Paradigm rejection has been a historic fact — but does it illuminate more than human credulity and confusion?
VLA-5676B30B-RC-093obedience-and-authority
Two men whose discourse had previously proceeded with apparently full understanding may suddenly find themselves responding to the same stimulus with incompatible descriptions.
VLA-5676B30B-RC-171What changes with the transition to maturity is not the presence of a paradigm but rather its nature. Only after the change is normal puzzle-solving research possible.
VLA-5676B30B-RC-154Illuminates
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