5Ce(Acceptance)-c
Paradigms determine normal science without the intervention of discoverable rules or shared assumptions,
simply be
5Ce=established communication that determines which endeavors are ACCEPTABLE
and which are not and may not
c=gain profile
but
are constrained by the thus aroused mob. In part, this is because it is very difficult to discover the
rules that guide particular normal-science traditions. Scientists never learn concepts, laws,
and theories in the abstract and by themselves e.g. they are c3 and not
C3-minded! They generally learn these with and through their applications. New theory is taught in tandem
with its application to a
concrete range of phenomena.
Sub-specialties are differently educated (metaphor-taboo) and focus on different applications
for their research findings. A paradigm
can determine several traditions of normal science that overlap without being coextensive. Consequently,
changes in a paradigm
affect different sub-specialties differently. "A revolution produced within one of these traditions
will not necessarily extend to the
others as well"; thus divide and rule, together with the ego-and C3-story-telling
taboo secure the system. When scientists disagree
about whether the fundamental problems of their field have been solved, the search for rules
gains a function that it does not
ordinarily possess; that of seeking ways to sustain the position power of science#2 in human society
like maggots in bacon....
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