Something I found interesting from this chapter was Thomas
Kuhn and his scientific Paradigms. There are three different concepts that he
put forward which were normal science, paradigms, and scientific revolutions.
Normal science is when, “Scientific research that is based on past achievements
and a recognized by most scientists.” Paradigms on the other hand is, “The
accepted view of what the world is like and how we should be studying it.”
Lastly scientific revolution is ,“a paradigm shift in which a new scientific theory
replaces a problematic paradigm.” There were many paradigm shifts that were
discovered, for instance one paradigm shift is whether or not the world was
round. Many people for the longest time believed that the world was flat and
that once you reached the end, you would just fall into oblivion. This was
obviously proved wrong, once explorers such as Columbus sailed the ocean blue. I believe that as our world develops, we
will experience countless of paradigm shifts.
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