June 1999
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
16h 1m
English
At the start, a new candidate for (a) paradigm (change) may have few supporters, and on occasions the supporters’ motives may be suspect. Nevertheless, if they are competent, they will improve it, explore its possibilities, and show what it would be like to belong to the community guided by it. And as that goes on, if the paradigm is one destined to win its fight, the number and strength of the persuasive arguments in its favor will increase.
—Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolution [1]
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