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(Ep 13) Book Club: The structure of scientific revolutions

Scott H Young Podcast

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What Makes Science Different From Art and Science?

Kuhn's main insight was that the standard model or the standard view that science is this accumulation of fact to ever and ever better theories was just wrong. So if science progresses and it doesn't progress the way we thought it did, then what makes science special? In some ways, Kuhn argues, this question itself might be misguided. Science may simply be pattern matched to those communities and fields, which do happen to exhibit some kind of progress.

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