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“The Structures of Scientific Revolutions" was the first book published by Philosopher Thomas Kuhn. This book has become the most referenced form of guidance in Scientific history, where it describes that normal science follows basic rules to solve a certain problem and Kuhns proposed view were that scientific revolutions take place to create revisions to existing rules in order to solve deeper more complex problems.
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In 1970 Kuhn released the second edition of his controversial book The Structure of Scientific Revolution”. This was to explain in a more in-depth manner what exactly a paradigm was. Many critics thought the Kuhn used the word in too wide of range and found it hard to define. Thomas Kuhn merely fond this as a pure unappreciation for the word.
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Incommensurability we see described by Leiden University ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euE7PP_RUfk) is the in ability for two things two be measured using neutral standards. Two scientific revolutions or paradigm shifts for instance are incommensurable. you’re comparing apples and dogs they don't share common factors to be measured, however it is between these paradigm shifts that we see progress as defined by Thomas Kuhn.
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Thomas Kuhn Published two more collective works between 1977 and 1978. The first of which was The “Essential Tension” in 1977. This was a collection of essays by Kuhn in which he emphasizes the importance of tradition in science. The next was the "Black Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity. This covered the early fazes of quantum mechanics.
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In 1983 at the age of 61, Thomas Kuhn was named the "Laurence S Rockefeller Professor of philosophy at MIT. During this time Kuhn continued to work on the issue of incommensurability.
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When Tomas Kuhn died in 1996 he was working on a second monograph dealing with the evolution of scientific change to come somewhat full circle form his first publication in 1962 31 years earlier, explaining what a scientific change was.
