[OT] Leverage Points
Kagamin
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Fri Aug 31 09:47:10 UTC 2018
On Thursday, 30 August 2018 at 11:45:00 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> (Quoting from the article I think).
>>
>> Kuhn and Lakatos. Paradigm shifts don't take place when the
>> dominant paradigm is defeated by logical or empirical means.
>> Paradigm shifts take place when for some reason people say
>> "how about we stop talking about that, and start talking about
>> this instead".
>
> Not sure why you'd call that anything other than defeat. :)
FWIW, it's the point of Lakatos's work: he argues that a paradigm
can't be defeated by logical or empirical means. It takes zero
effort to not do anything, so status quo is easily maintained.
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