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Not Kuhn's fault, but this book started a different kind of revolution:

> Postmodernists interpreted Thomas Kuhn's ideas about scientific paradigms to mean that scientific theories are social constructs, and philosophers like Paul Feyerabend argued that other, non-realist forms of knowledge production were better suited to serve people's personal and spiritual needs.

> Kuhn described the development of scientific knowledge not as a linear increase in truth and understanding, but as a series of periodic revolutions which overturned the old scientific order and replaced it with new orders (what he called "paradigms"). Kuhn attributed much of this process to the interactions and strategies of the human participants in science rather than its own innate logical structure.

> Some interpreted Kuhn's ideas to mean that scientific theories were, either wholly or in part, social constructs, which many interpreted as diminishing the claim of science to representing objective reality

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_wars]



That is some unknown people's broad-based interpretation of others' interpretations of Kuhn's theories of science. That is far from the source and through a filter of unknown accuracy - very unscientific!


Heh. I take it as a compliment about how powerful his ideas were. But yeah, some serious overreaching with some of his ideas.

“Fanboys going all in on an idea and applying it to everything” kinda thing.




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