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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn · 1962 · University of Chicago Press

The account of paradigms and anomalies that reframed science as a social practice punctuated by crisis, not a smooth accumulation of facts.

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Novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

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