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The serious point — advanced by Kuhn — is that the boundaries of an intellectual discipline, [[power structure]], [[narrative]], [[paradigm]] — call it what you will — frame and condition the questions you may ask as much as any answers it provides. If you find yourself getting silly answers, the problem may lie in your question.
The serious point — advanced by Kuhn — is that the boundaries of an intellectual discipline, [[power structure]], [[narrative]], [[paradigm]] — call it what you will — frame and condition the questions you may ask as much as any answers it provides. If you find yourself getting silly answers, the problem may lie in your question.


Hence, paradoxes: if your discipline is (as analytical philosophy is) riven with [[paradox]]es, this is not so much a sign that you have hit upon an eternal conundrum, but that you are barking up the wrong tree.
Hence, paradoxes: if your discipline is (as much of analytical philosophy is) riven with [[paradox]]es, this is not so much a sign that you have hit upon an eternal conundrum, but that you are barking up the wrong tree.


Hence, a new JC law of worker entropy. Let us call it the fourteenth:
Hence, a new JC law of worker entropy. Let us call it the fourteenth: