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In Copernican Revolution, it changed the thought that the earth was the center of the universe and shifted to the sun being the center of the universe.
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This is Kuhn’s most notable book. Many historians and philosophers believe this book to be the most influential work in the 20th century.
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The background on The Structure of Scientific Revolution is how scientific research and scientific thought were based on paradigms and world-views. Which contained formal theories, classics experiments, and methods that are trusted. Scientist are know to accept paradigms, redefine them, expand on its theories, and give more detailed information on it.
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Kuhn argued and questioned a lot of scientific progress and knowledge that was constructed on judicious selected experimental frameworks. One point that he argued was that paradigm determines the kind of experiments or research his peers performed, types of questions that were asked, and what problems were considered important.
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Looking back, Kuhn was a major influencer in the philosophy of science field. Kuhn revolutionized the field and the history of philosophy of science. His concepts and ideas touched many fields and one being business management. Later on in his career he went on to write a collection of essays called The Essential Tension (1977), and the technical study Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity (1978).
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