Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes

The decision to reject one paradigm is always simultaneously the decision to accept another, and the judgment leading to that decision involves the comparison of both paradigms with nature and with each other.

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• The decision to reject one paradigm is always simultaneously the decision to accept another, and the judgment leading to that decision involves the comparison of both paradigms with nature and with each other.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Paradigm
  • Rejects