F8: Soccer's Apprentice

VIII) The Response to Crisis instigated by some scientists#2, a Soccer's Apprentice , begins with the F8=presence in the present awareness by acknowledging that a crisis exists and loosens theoretical stereotypes and provides the incremental data necessary for a fundamental paradigm shift. Normal science does and must continually strive to bring theory and fact into closer agreement. The recognition and acknowledgement of anomalies result in crises that are a necessary precondition for the emergence of novel theories and for paradigm change. Crisis is the essential tension implicit in scientific research. There is no such thing as research without counterinstances. These counterinstances create tension and crisis. Crisis is always implicit in research because every problem that normal science sees as a puzzle can be seen, from another, viewpoint, as a counterinstance and thus as a source of crisis .

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