On Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"
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The Paradime Shift
In order to communicate about science, you and i have to see the world in the same way. When that starts to break down, that's when scientific revolutions happen. In developing his theory of paradime shifts, kune was influenced by an eighteenth century movement called psychophysics. Psychophysics wanted to study how people experienced the world. They were interested in the relationship between some external stimulus, like the loudness of a tone, and a person's internal representation of that stimulus.
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