The nature of scientific revolutions
T Kuhn - Chicago: University of Chicago, 1970 - degruyter.com
T Kuhn
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1970•degruyter.comConcepts can never be derived logically from experience and be above criticism. But for
didactic and also heuristic purposes such a procedure is inevitable. Moral: Unless one sins
against logic, one generally gets nowhere; or, one cannot build a house or construct a
bridge without using a scaffold which is really not one of its basic parts.—Albert Einstein,
letter to Maurice Solovine, 1953 Paradigms are not corrigible by normal science at all.
Instead, as we have already seen, normal science ultimately leads only to recognition of …
didactic and also heuristic purposes such a procedure is inevitable. Moral: Unless one sins
against logic, one generally gets nowhere; or, one cannot build a house or construct a
bridge without using a scaffold which is really not one of its basic parts.—Albert Einstein,
letter to Maurice Solovine, 1953 Paradigms are not corrigible by normal science at all.
Instead, as we have already seen, normal science ultimately leads only to recognition of …
Concepts can never be derived logically from experience and be above criticism. But for didactic and also heuristic purposes such a procedure is inevitable. Moral: Unless one sins against logic, one generally gets nowhere; or, one cannot build a house or construct a bridge without using a scaffold which is really not one of its basic parts.—Albert Einstein, letter to Maurice Solovine, 1953
Paradigms are not corrigible by normal science at all. Instead, as we have already seen, normal science ultimately leads only to recognition of anomalies and to crises. And these are terminated, not by deliberation and interpretation, but by a relatively sudden and unstructured event like the gestalt switch.
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