[HN Gopher] The Structure of Scientific Revolutions [pdf]
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       The Structure of Scientific Revolutions [pdf]
        
       Author : andsoitis
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2023-05-24 07:25 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
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       | gattis wrote:
       | I remember in 2000 when journalists asked George W Bush and Al
       | Gore what their favorite books were. Bush said his was The Bible.
       | Al Gore said his was The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by
       | Thomas Kuhn. Probably could have called the election right then.
        
       | photochemsyn wrote:
       | > "Scientific knowledge, like language, is intrinsically the
       | common property of a group or else nothing at all. To understand
       | it we shall need to know the special characteristics of the
       | groups that create and use it."
       | 
       | I really don't know about this - the divisions that humans have
       | created in their study of science are pretty artificial, i.e.
       | physics/chemistry/biology, and seem to have more to do with
       | academic politics and funding opportunities than the natural
       | world itself. Nature doesn't care about such divisions, not in
       | the least.
       | 
       | Mathematics is something of a special case, in that its results
       | (and motivations) are as relevant to the world of art as they are
       | to the world of science.
        
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