Falsificationism falsifies itself: it is a theory scientists refuse to abandon despite mountains of observations that falsify it
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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In the 60s, almost everyone misunderstood him that way, and criticized him for things he absolutely didn’t say or believe.
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