PHILOS 8 Study Guide - Final Guide: Electron Microscope, Bayesian Inference, Ceteris Paribus
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Not be able to see the world the same way you did before (when you start to see these things in this. *scientific revolution=when one dominant paradigm is replaced with another. *paradigm shift= old paradigm is falsified and there is another paradigm that is a new possibility for scientific attention. He compares the shifts that take place during scientific revolutions to (cid:498)conversion experiences(cid:499), (cid:498)political revolutions(cid:499), or (cid:498)gestalt shifts(cid:499). paradigm, so ) should too(cid:524). Similarly, (cid:498)gestalt shifts(cid:499) suggest that upon making such a shift, you will new way, its not because your reasoning changed; your worldview has not changed because you"ve amassed new evidence(cid:524). Lastly, his metaphor to a (cid:498)conversion experience(cid:499) also suggests a sudden. *the t(es)s of (cid:498))ncommeasurab)l)ty(cid:499) suggests that different paradigms cannot be comparable and drastic change (converting from atheism to christianity one day because you suddenly realized that something is not right; how much of a role does reason play?).
