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Kuhn on Paradigm Transition

Explore the reconstruction of the field from new fundamentals.

The decision to reject one paradigm is always simultaneously the decision to accept another... The transition from a paradigm in crisis to a new one is far from a cumulative process. Rather it is a reconstruction of the field from new fundamentals, a reconstruction that changes some of the field's most elementary theoretical generalizations as well as many of its paradigm methods and applications.