(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.
Interesting. Kuhn did a historical piece looking at how the Copernican revolution proceeded. He then modified a viewpoint about how scientific development occurs. He overstepped his data and didn't quite prove what he claimed. Seems to me like he was doing history more than philosophy.
