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The Nature of the Disagreement You Have With Thomas Kuhn
Do you still see ideas that really have a transformational effect on science? I certainly think they exist. How strong they may be at any given time is maybe not quite as powerful as Tom thought in general. It's almost always the case that there are one or two, or maybe three, individuals who are sort of central to what goes on when things begin to shift. You can go very far back with this, even into antiquity, to see what goes on.