Post by nictoe on Oct 15, 2022 9:38:33 GMT -8
Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.
Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.
Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none
No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all. Nor do scientists normally aim to invent new theories, and they are often intolerant of those invented by others.