Sublime

Thomas Samuel Kuhn, qui a élaboré la notion de paradigme : des découvertes scientifiques universellement reconnues qui, pour un temps, fournissent à la communauté scientifique des problèmes types et des solutions, jusqu’à ce qu’un nouveau paradigme vienne apporter un cadre théorique neuf et des conceptions nouvelles.

Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.”

He had a gift for aphorism; and his names have acquired an unusual status, for although they were once arcane, some of them are now part of colloquial English. Here is the sequence: (1) normal science (§§II–IV—he called these sections, not chapters, for he thought of Structure as more of a book outline than a book); (2) puzzle-solving (§IV); (3) pa

Thomas Kuhn introduced the term ‘paradigm shift’ in his controversial book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn explained that scientific fields go through five distinct phases, the first of which is the ‘pre-paradigm’ phase.