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Kuhn suggests
X) Revolutions as Changes of World View
: While people get slaughtered so that science#2 may go on as
scientific revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments
in places they have looked
before. Familiar objects are seen in a different light and joined by unfamiliar ones as well. Scientists
see new things when looking
at old objects. In a sense, after a revolution, scientists are responding to a different world.
Why does a shift in view occur? Genius? Flashes of intuition? Sure. Because different
scientists interpret their observations
differently? No. Observations are themselves nearly always different. Observations are conducted within
a paradigmatic
framework, so
the interpretative enterprise can only articulate a paradigm, not correct it
. Because of factors embedded in the
nature of human perception and retinal impression? No doubt, but our
knowledge is simply not yet advanced enough
on this matter
says Kuhn, and science#2 would abhor it, for it comes from science#3! Changes in definitional conventions?
No. Because the existing
paradigm fails to fit? Always. Because of a change in the relation between the scientist's
manipulations and the paradigm or
between the manipulations and their concrete results? You bet.
It is hard to make nature fit a paradigm.
In fact it is impossible: MAT
5:18: "I assure you, until heaven and earth disappear, even the smallest detail of God's law
will remain
until its purpose is
achieved
". However, scientists#2, in its own right, likes to waste life in making it strive for their impossible
objectives!
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