(Falsificationism is the theory that scientists abandon a theory when they find evidence against it. This essentially never happens.)
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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So mostly everyone now thinks he advocated some sort of mystical paradigm-shift woo, and his actual insights are mainly lost.
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