Lesson 2: THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION Flashcards

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He argues that the scientific enterprise if largely a social construct.

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Kuhn

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Provides a model of understanding scientific problems and solutions, as well as research method.

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Paradigm

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The default state of mature science and of the community of researchers who constitute it.

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Normal science

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Occurs when a dominant paradigm is unable to explain new facts.

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Scientific revolution

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a.k.a. of Ptolemaic system.

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Geocentric system

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Known as astronomer and mathematician.

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Alexandrian Ptolemy

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