Heuristic Reasoning by Emiliano Ippoliti

Heuristic Reasoning by Emiliano Ippoliti

Author:Emiliano Ippoliti
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham


In the Postscript, written in 1969, to the second edition of The Structure of Revolutions, Kuhn writes [17, p. 181]:A number of critics4 have doubted whether crisis, the common awareness that something has gone wrong, precedes revolutions so invariably as I implied in my original text. Nothing important to my argument depends, however, on crises’ being an absolute prerequisite to revolutions; they need only be the usual prelude, supplying, that is, a self-correcting mechanism which ensures that the rigidity of normal science will not forever go unchallenged. Revolutions may also be induced in other ways, though I think they seldom are. … crises need not be generated by the work of the community that experiences them and that sometimes undergoes revolution as a result. New instruments like the electron microscope or new laws like Maxwell’s may develop in one specialty and their assimilation create crisis in another.



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