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What is science? (Thomas Kuhn (1922-1986) # (mature science governed by a…

- - - - when anomalies are to much and strong ->
        
        crisis: scientists are more open for an alternative theory -> time for revolution
        
        in revolution: sudden paradigm change
        
        important here: difference between objective existence of relationship and the subjective understanding of it
        
        sudden paradigm change happens within a scientists brain
        
        no implication for a better paradigm, just another one #
  - - - values of the individual, group or culture that makes the judgment have to be taken into account when assessing a paradigm
      - because scientific research depends on paradigm that will change in the future, findings are relative
- - - - every "good" scientific theory is a prohibition
- - - - problems
        
        observation -> perception -> interpretation
        
        which variables are observable and which not?
        
        logically impossible to prove a conclusion based on induction as true
- - - - making a claim that is yet to happen
      - new, alternative paradigm
    - - explaining things, that already happened and why
      - failed paradigm
- - - - has therefore been ignored for a long time