PHILOS 8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Prime Number, Nominalism, Rudolf Carnap
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L e c t u r e 1 1. Paradigm: one per eld, way of understanding the world, second de nition (an exemplar or the methodology of a given branch of science) ~ theory of relativity. Normal science: crisis is not happening, things are going well for the paradigm, period of puzzle solving (you do not want to change your hypothesis, but you are trying to gather all these new propositions) Anomaly: something that does not make sense within your. Anomaly: something that does not make sense within your paradigm (earth is the center of the universe, going from cir- cular orbits to elliptical orbits) Revolution: critical mass of anomalies pile up so our current theory is not working well and we are searching for a new one (there is not always a new theory to explain the existing anomalies) Over a long period of time, this type of science helps us make advancements.
