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Analysis of Thomas Kuhn 's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas Kuhn 's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions discusses the very nature and necessity of what he calls scientific revolutions . In this particular work , Kuhn sees an apparent parallelism between political revolutions on the one hand , and scientific revolutions on the other Kuhn states , Scientific revolutions . those non-cumulative developmental episodes in which an

older paradigm is replaced in whole or in part by an incompatible new one (503 . On a preliminary note paradigms are frameworks in and through which we approach phenomena They are models , so to speak . The idea is rather simple . Let us consider the choice of models in epistemological theory . The traditional epistemological schools of thought [rationalism and empiricism] have different models . The model adopted by the rationalists was pure mathematics , whereas the empiricists adopted experimental or empirical science . The choice of model is significant to their fundamental disagreements since different models employ different methodologies Different methodologies in turn , generate different types of knowledge which , consequently , have different criteria of proof or validity

Scientific development , as Kuhn contends , may appropriately be characterized by paradigm shifts and this he calls scientific revolutions . It is important to note that scientific developments do not occur in a vacuum . For the aforementioned reason , there is a felt need to situate scientific developments in the...