CS235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thomas Kuhn, Antipositivism, Anomie
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There are 2 basic paradigms of research inquiry into particular phenomenon: (cid:862)(cid:374)aturalis(cid:373)(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)i(cid:374)terpreti(cid:448)is(cid:373)(cid:863) Paradigm comes from greek paradeigma, (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s (cid:862)patter(cid:374), e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple, sa(cid:373)ple(cid:863) In rhetoric, a paradigm is known as a type of proof, or a way of reasoning and arguing. In the philosophy of (social) sciences, thomas kuhn defined a paradigm as the set of concepts and practices that define a scientific discipline. Outside of the paradigm is noise and chaos, instead is order (music, reason: the art of creating a paradigm is the practice of shaping the world around us into something that is knowable. Elements of a scientific paradigm important for midterm. The first thing a paradigm reveals to us is the first thing we are going to learn: a revelation. What is to be observed and scrutinized. The kind of questions that are supposed to be asked and probed for answers in relation to what we observe and study.
