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Inverting the Paradox of Excellence
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Inverting the Paradox of Excellence

by Vivek Kale
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
442 pages
21h 44m
English
Productivity Press
Content preview from Inverting the Paradox of Excellence
55Variations and Theories of Excellence
process of thinking up an idea and the logical process of justifying its claim to truth) and his
emphasis on incommensurability—the claim that certain kinds of comparison between theories is
impossible. The negative response among philosophers was exacerbated by an important natural-
istic tendency in The Structure of Scientic Revolutions that was then unfamiliar. A particularly
signicant instance of this was Kuhn’s insistence on the importance of the history of science for
philosophy of science.
In The Structure of Scientic Revolutions, Kuhn paints a picture of the development of science
quite unlike any that had gone before. According to the traditional account of scientic change, sci-
ence develops ...
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