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                                                      January 23, 2014

Some remarks I made at reddit about Thomas Kuhn's
ideas about "paradigms" in science:

   Kuhn argued that there are some severe logical problems
   with saying that a new paradigm is accepted because of
   greater explanatory power because paradigm-shifts tend
   to involve changes in the very understanding of what
   needs to be explained and the meanings of the terms used
   in the explanations.

   It's no where near as cut-and-dried as gee, we have
   outstanding problems X, Y and Z, but if we just
   re-think everything in terms of that new paradigm
   we can cross-off problem Y and Z and we'll only be
   left with X.


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