[OT] Leverage Points

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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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