No process yet disclosed by the historical study of scientific development at all resembles the methodological stereotype of falsification by direct comparison with nature. | |
— Thomas S. Kuhn | |
From his book: “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions“ | |
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Posts Tagged ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’
The False Stereotype
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Falsification, Historical Study, Nature, Philosophy, Quotes, Science, Scientific Development, Stereotypes, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn PhD on March 7, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Emergent Novelty
Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, Serendipity and Chaos, tagged Discovery, Novelty, Philosophy, Quotes, Science, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn PhD on February 7, 2021| Leave a Comment »
The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he wants to achieve, and he designs his instruments and directs his thoughts accordingly. Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong. | |
— Thomas S. Kuhn | |
From his book: “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions“ | |
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Is Science Cumulative?
Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Philosophy, Quotes, Science, The Rule Of Scientific Development, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn PhD on January 28, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Cumulative acquisition of unanticipated novelties proves to be an almost non-existent exception to the rule of scientific development. The man who takes historic fact seriously must suspect that science does not tend toward the ideal that our image of its cumulativeness has suggested. Perhaps it is another sort of enterprise. | |
If, however, resistant facts can carry us that far, then a second look at the ground we have already covered may suggest that cumulative acquisition of novelty is not only rare in fact but improbable in principle. Normal research, which is cumulative, owes its success to the ability of scientists regularly to select problems that can be solved with conceptual and instrumental techniques close to those already in existence. | |
— Thomas S. Kuhn | |
From his book: “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions“ | |
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Normal Scientific Assumptions
Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Assumptions, Normal Science, Philosophy, Quotes, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn PhD on June 13, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Much of the success of the enterprise derives from the community’s willingness to defend that assumption, if necessary at considerable cost. | |
— Thomas S. Kuhn | |
From his book: “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions“ | |
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