Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")
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Isn't That a Picture of How Science Could Work?
Pauper's view is that you have all these theories out there. And coone's view is this is just not a picture of how science works. Because any time you're in normal science, there are tons of anomalies. No theory ever solves all the puzzles with which it is confronted at a given time. Nor are the solutions already achieved often perfect. It is just the incompleteness and the imperfection of the existing data theory fit that at any time define many of the puzzles that characterize normal science.
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