These three classes of problems—determination of significant fact, matching of facts with theory, and articulation of theory—exhaust, I think, the literature of normal science, both empirical and theoretical.
>Be me: a newly discovered paradigm
>Cool guy probably an 8/10
>Pretty good at predicting stuff that hasn’t happened yet
>Douche scientists at scientific journals won’t publish me because I don’t fit in with any of the other paradigms
>Wait a while
>Douche scientists who don’t like me all die off
>Get published
>Scientists use me to predict more and more things.
>These things actually happen
>More and more scientists joint
>They start contributing, and I get even better at predicting shit
>Be several years later
>Become the dominant scientific paradigm in my field
>MFW some new Chad looking paradigm thinks he can explain shit better than me
