Fifty years ago, a short book appeared under the intriguing title The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Its author, Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996), had begun his academic life as a physicist but had ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The paper justifies the concept of "thematic structure" or "order of knowledge" over the traditional "classification of sciences" due to the ...

Vol. 57, No. 2, Rationality and Objectivity: Philosophical and Psychological Conceptions, Part I (Nov., 1983), pp. 129-138 (10 pages) The claim is made that the norms for justified belief in science ...