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Although normal science is a pursuit not directed to novelties and tending at first to suppress them
in favor of its already
6Oe=established objectives and the controlled
PREJUDICE, it is nonetheless very effective in causing them to arise. Why? An initial
paradigm accounts quite successfully for most of the observations and experiments readily accessible
to that science's practitioners.
Research results in the construction of elaborate equipment, development of an esoteric and shared vocabulary,
refinement of
concepts that increasingly lessens their resemblance to their usual common-sense prototypes. This professionalization
leads to
immense restriction of the scientist's vision, rigid science, resistance to paradigm change,
and a detail of information and precision
of the observation-theory match that can be achieved in no other way. New and refined methods and
instruments result in greater
precision and
understanding of the paradigm
. Only when researchers know with precision what to expect from an experiment can
they recognize that something has gone wrong in terms of the
h=environment they want to rule
through science#2's control of
objects, command of people and communicating in mutual admiration societies so
that the game can go on.
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