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thewimsey t1_j7n7qxn wrote

Why is Kuhn "controversial?"

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JustRudiThings t1_j7ovzqz wrote

He isn‘t that controversial about his use of paradigm to describe a stage of science (except maybe the assumption that genuine scientific fields always only are supposed to have one). He is more controversal for that a paradigm shift within a science becomes intelligible from the view between those paradigms

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Linkzy_b t1_j7oppzf wrote

check out the wiki page, there are detractors who come after him. also his word isnt gospel even if convincing

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Denziloe t1_j7or4kl wrote

But that's always true. Philosophers always disagree. The correct word is "influential".

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