Monday, July 18, 2011

Thought for the day ...

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
- Thomas Kuhn, born on this date in 1922

1 comment:

  1. "[T]rial attempts [to solve puzzles], whether by the chess player or by the scientist, are trials only of themselves, not of the rules of the game. They are possible only so long as the paradigm itself is taken for granted." (Kuhn, 1993, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 3rd edition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, pp.144-5.)

    Quoted here:

    Adherence « Philosophy of Science
    http://thephilosophyofscience.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/adherence/

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