Thomas+Kuhn?

Tim's Part Who was Thomas Kuhn? Why is his name associated with the work "paradigm?"  Thomas Kuhn said "A paradigm is what members of a scientific community, and they alone, share." Kauhn wrote a worked called

// The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) // where he defined Paradigm Shift as a change in the basic assumptions, or paradigms, within the ruling theory of science. He believed that learning was not linear, we did not just build and build and eventually got it, he said that there were stages. Prescience, Normal science, and revolutionary science. We will see a time where the puzzle solving of normal science will stop. Then all of a sudden we see a new idea change the direction of science as we know it. Think of steam power and blimps, they went out the window as soon a electricity hit it big. There was no going back to that kind of thinking. So when we look at paradigm we are talking about the framework that someone will actually experiment in. So in science it is a time of puzzle solving and scientific revolution within a conceptual framework. once we make a a big enough revolution we will forever change the paradigm. He goes on to say that we cannot work in more than one paradigm, so the change is universal and complete.

Kuhn did not agree with the application of this term out side of the "true science" field. But it has been used in many other areas. It is even used to described your every day life. So it is your acceptance of the way things are in the world around you.