The word paradigm seems like an abstract and forbidding term, but it actually communicates a useful idea. The concept of paradigm shifts became immensely influential in the 1960s and 70s thanks to an academic Thomas Kuhn who wrote a book called The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962, 1970). Kuhn’s argument challenged the traditional idea that scientific progress was a matter of gradual improvement, where new facts and observations would steadily add up to form a more perfect understanding of the world. Instead, Kuhn argued, our knowledge of the world develops through so-called paradigm shifts...
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