Thomas Kuhn
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Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles. The book populariz
Kuhn in 1977
Paradigm shift
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A paradigm shift is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline. It is a concept in the philosophy of science that was introduced and brought into
Thomas Kuhn
…of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles. The book popularized the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom. Kuhn made several claims concerning the progress of scientific knowledge: that scientific fields…
Kuhn used the duck-rabbit ambiguous image, which Wittgenstein famously used to distinguish between the meaning of 'seeing as' and 'seeing that,' to show how a paradigm shift could cause one to see the same information in an entirely different way.