F3: Productivity towards Success
If a paradigm about
III) The Nature of Normal Science
consists of basic and incontrovertible
F3=past in its determination of
the presence of mind
assumptions about the nature of the discipline, what questions are left to ask? Of course how to succumb
nature
to it and that is a topic that concerns us all!
When "normality" first appear say a military discipline, the underlying paradigms were limited
in scope and in precision. More
successful usually did not mean mean completely successful with a single problem or notably successful
with any large number of them.
Initially, a paradigm offers the promise of success. Normal science consists in the actualization
of that promise. This is achieved
by extending the knowledge of those facts that the paradigm displays as particularly revealing, increasing
the extent of the match
between those facts and the paradigm's predictions, and further articulation of the paradigm itself
in the
Productivity towards
politically correct Success
.
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