Thomas Kuhn and the Structure of Scientific Revolutions

 

The idea of the "paradigm"

 

Paradigms determine perceptions as well as interpretations.

 

Paradigms consist of concepts and relationships.

 

Paradigms are associated with a unique vocabulary, which carries those concepts.

 

But the same word can have different meanings in different paradigms

- (e.g. mass in Newtonian physics vs. Einstein's physics or justice in politics).

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