Falsificationism falsifies itself: it is a theory scientists refuse to abandon despite mountains of observations that falsify it
Yes, but it is messy and complicated. The attraction of falsificationism is that any twelve-year-old can understand it in science class.
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Kuhn got a lot (but not all) of the story right. The ethnomethodologists filled in a lot more pieces (but got some things badly off).
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Kuhn’s explanation is meta-rational, but if a reader doesn’t understand that, they’ll take it as irrational or anti-rational.
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