
Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")
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Is There a Falsification of the Paradime?
Some form of falsification, i think, has to occur. I think it's just going to be harder, and it takes longer to maybe convince people that this was an instance of falsification. So imagine all the instances in which somebody does n't experiment and fails to get it right? Like an eighth grader in kemlab, right? Who does something that everybody knows is supposed to work, but they do it wrong. Nobody's going to like, you know, stop the presses. We've falsified this theory of how this chemical reaction works. It will never be that clear cut whether that test falsified the theory or not.
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