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From: Das GOAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> In a message dated 99-08-23 00:21:13 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> >And your characterizations about scientific paradigms are absurd and
> >totally inaccurate. Scientists make their reputations by squashing old
> >paradigms,not worshipping them - by establishing new paradigms, not
> >abjuring them. You've never read a scientific journal, have you?
>
> Capital B Baloney. You obviously have not studied Thomas Kuhn's "The
> Structure of Scientific Revolutions," which describes -- and cites
> numerous examples of -- the very opposite. As a rule, paradigms in
> science change only when the old-fart "authorities" who stubbornly,
> in defiance of reason, defend them --exactly like medieval theologians
> emotionally over-invested in DOGMAS, as a matter of FAITH-- finally die
> off -- giving way to a younger generation not so much entrenched in
> fossilized, by-now dubious beliefs.
Kuhn was entertaining, but is irrelevant in a world of instantaneous
communications. Anyone paying the slightest attention to the physical,
biological and cognitive sciences would note scads of paradigm shifts
in the last decade. Virtually EVERY technical book more than a couple
years old is OBSOLETE - THAT shows how fast paradigms shift in science.
Read some of the sci.* newsgroups to get a taste of reality.
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