Key insights from
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By Thomas Kuhn
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Published Apr 20, 2012
What you'll learn
Since its publication in 1962, few essays have disrupted and shaped our understanding of science like The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. It’s impacted not just the practice of science, but also culture and the ways we believe we come to know things.
Key insights
- 1 The progression of science isn’t just an incremental accrual of new information.
- 2 Paradigms are the best way to explain the development of science.
- 3 Every paradigm shift begins with an anomaly that the old paradigm can’t explain away.
- 4 The metaphor of revolution is fitting to describe the process of change in science.
- 5 Scientific progress is arbitrary in ways that scientists struggle to admit.
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