A Hard Science is Good to Find Textual Similarity as a Measure of Scientific Paradigm Development, A Preliminary Investigation
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The notion of a “hierarchy of sciences”, in which academic fields can be ordered from “hard” to “soft”, is an old one. However, efforts to develop a measure of hardness of a field—the field’s level of paradigm development—to date have not been highly successful. Here I explore the possibility of using a text-based similarity measure to quantify the extent of consensus in a field, which is theorized to correlate with hardness.
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