(March 26, 2018 at 4:34 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: Gee, it's really nice that philosopher Thomas Kuhn examined the sciences and (in his useless, pointless, philosophical way) discerned that the sciences experience paradigm shifts rather than simply growing linearly as people thought. If he hadn't done that, Mathilda wouldn't know what to prescribe for philosophy.
So if it works for the sciences, why shouldn't it also work for philosophy?
And it didn't require a philosopher to point out that paradigm shifts happen. The history of science tells us that.
