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paradigm shift

paradigm shift

in the influential 1962 analysis of scientific revolutions by U.S. philosopher of science Thomas S. Kuhn (1922–1996), a substantial and fairly rapid change in the whole pattern of ideas and assumptions defining the nature of a science and determining the methods and procedures used.

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