Generalized structure of social revolutions
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
VIII. The Response to Crisis Let us then assume that crises are a necessary precondition for the emergence of novel theories and ask next how scientists respond to their existence. Part of the answer, as obvious as it is important, can be discovered by noting first what scientists never do when confronted by even severe and prolonged anomalies. Though they may begin to lose faith and then to co...
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عنوان ژورنال: Joho Chishiki Gakkaishi
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1881-7661,0917-1436
DOI: 10.2964/jsik.20_103