The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

by Thomas S. Kuhn

putative

effluvium

incommensurable

effluvium

epistemological

dephlogisticated

epistemological

elucidation

transuranic

corpuscles

concomitant

perennial.

seriatim

science has reached its present state by a series of individual discoveries and inventions that, when gathered together, constitute

the modern body of technical knowledge.

indubitable

neophyte

the research worker is a solver of puzzles, not a tester of paradigms.

verisimilitude,

recapitulate

isotropic,

partial.

gestalt

And Max Planck, surveying his own career in his Scientific Autobiography, sadly remarked that “a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

fom

Copernican—lie

Before

ablest,

esoteric

foci

unanimity

taxonomy

Joule-Lenz Law, H = RI2.

ontological

constitutive

For the case of free fall, f = ma becomes mg = m(d2s/dt2);

gestalt

tacit

solipsism,

solipsism.

parochialism,

apperception

incommensurable

homophonically

elucidate

To persuade someone is, I take it, to convince him that one’s own view is superior and ought therefore supplant his own.

His work is parasitic on theirs, for he lacks the constellation of mental sets which future members of the community will acquire through education.

inscrutable