Model
Paradigm Shift
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In science, this phenomenon is documented in Thomas Kuhn's book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which popularized the paradigm shift model, describing how accepted scientific theories change over time. Instead of a gradual, evolving progression, Kuhn describes a bumpy, messy process in which initial problems with a scientific theory are either ignored or rationalized away. Eventually so many issues pile up that the scientific discipline in question is thrown into a crisis mode, and the paradigm shifts to a new explanation, entering a new stable era.
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Chapter:
Being Wrong Less
Section:
Progress, One Funeral At A Time
