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Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "A paradigm shift is a phrase that was popularized by Thomas Kuhn in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), and used to describe a change or "revolution" in the basic concepts of a scientific discipline. The nature and structure of scientific revolutions has been a question posed by modern philosophy since Immanuel Kant used the phrase in the preface to his Critique of Pure Reason (1781). According to Kuhn, "A paradigm is what members of a scientific community, and they alone, share" (The Essential Tension, 1977). Unlike a normal scientist, Kuhn held, "a student in the humanities has constantly before him a number of competing and incommensurable solutions to these problems, solutions that he must ultimately examine for himself" (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions).Once a paradigm shift is complete, scientists do not, for example, reject the germ theory of disease to posit the possibility that miasma causes disease. In contrast, a critic in the humanities can choose to adopt an array of stances (e.g., Marxist criticism, Freudian criticism, Deconstruction, 19th-century-style literary criticism), which may be more or less fashionable during any given period but all regarded as legitimate. Since the 1960s, the term has also been used in numerous non-scientific contexts to describe a profound change in a fundamental model or perception of events, even though Kuhn himself restricted the use of the term to the hard sciences. Compare as a structured form of Zeitgeist."@en }

• Paradigm_shift abstract "A paradigm shift is a phrase that was popularized by Thomas Kuhn in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), and used to describe a change or "revolution" in the basic concepts of a scientific discipline. The nature and structure of scientific revolutions has been a question posed by modern philosophy since Immanuel Kant used the phrase in the preface to his Critique of Pure Reason (1781). According to Kuhn, "A paradigm is what members of a scientific community, and they alone, share" (The Essential Tension, 1977). Unlike a normal scientist, Kuhn held, "a student in the humanities has constantly before him a number of competing and incommensurable solutions to these problems, solutions that he must ultimately examine for himself" (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions).Once a paradigm shift is complete, scientists do not, for example, reject the germ theory of disease to posit the possibility that miasma causes disease. In contrast, a critic in the humanities can choose to adopt an array of stances (e.g., Marxist criticism, Freudian criticism, Deconstruction, 19th-century-style literary criticism), which may be more or less fashionable during any given period but all regarded as legitimate. Since the 1960s, the term has also been used in numerous non-scientific contexts to describe a profound change in a fundamental model or perception of events, even though Kuhn himself restricted the use of the term to the hard sciences. Compare as a structured form of Zeitgeist.".