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Perspective voyage · 1962

Kuhn — Normal-science puzzles and paradigm change

Should a successful research tradition keep solving puzzles despite an anomaly, and when should it change frameworks?

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Kuhn's normal science solves puzzles under shared exemplars and standards; anomalies become conditions for crisis and revolution when they accumulate or become especially consequential.

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  • Thomas Kuhn

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Locator: §2.2 Paradigms and Normal Science; §2.3 Crisis and Revolutions

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1962 CE · 1962

Published in Chicago, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions depicts scientific time as alternating normal work and revolutionary change.

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