Thomas Kuhn’s ideas, particularly of paradigm, are used with some frequency in information science. The usages of paradigm and the problematic nature of Kuhn’s thought are explored. Alternatives to Kuhn are suggested as a way out of the confusion his thought leads to. Résumé : Les idées de Thomas Kuhn, plus particulièrement le paradigme, sont utilisées assez fréquemment en science de l’informat...

For dropping the incommensurability idea elaborated at time of The Structure Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn dismisses concept “revolution”. involved incomparability theories. In this new environment, revolution is replaced by conceptual reformulation and becomes occasional. linguistic turn in Kuhn’s thought involves changes whose aim to get around accusation relativism that former notion arouses....

The systematic assumption of faithfulness violations in Optimality Theory implies an innnite space of candidates. Under the methodological principle of trying to explain as much possible through constraint interaction, control over this innnite space should be exerted by the constraints. Assuming the subsumption-based candidate deenition of OT-LFG, the candidate space is indeed suuciently struc...

In recent years, sequential optimality conditions are frequently used for convergence of iterative methods to solve nonlinear constrained optimization problems. The sequential optimality conditions do not require any of the constraint qualications. In this paper, We present the necessary sequential complementary approximate Karush Kuhn Tucker (CAKKT) condition for a point to be a solution of a ...

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