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Does Kulm mean "a student in the humanities usually has to make a lot of paradigm shifts?

 
 
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A paradigm shift (or revolutionary science) is, according to Thomas Kuhn, in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), a change in the basic assumptions, or paradigms, within the ruling theory of science. It is in contrast to his idea of normal science. According to Kuhn, "A paradigm is what members of a scientific community, and they alone, share" (The Essential Tension, 1977). Unlike a normal scientist, Kuhn held, "a student in the humanities has constantly before him a number of competing and incommensurable solutions to these problems, solutions that he must ultimately examine for himself" (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions).

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Reply Mon 18 Feb, 2013 07:56 am
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No. It means that he must consider many paradigms.
Science is exact. Once you have a paradigm shift in science, for example, once you believe that 2+2=4, then you can't go back in time and believe numbers haven't a specific value.
With the humanities, because there are so many immeasurable reasons why people do the things they do, you have to weigh all possibilities.
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