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If the data won’t do what they’re meant to, sometimes you reject the '''question'' as being irrelevant, and not the answer predicted by the theory. | If the data won’t do what they’re meant to, sometimes you reject the '''question'' as being irrelevant, and not the answer predicted by the theory. | ||
All this takes place inside what Kuhn describes as a “[[paradigm]]” - a “particular coherent tradition of scientific | All this takes place inside what Kuhn describes as a “[[paradigm]]” - a “particular coherent tradition of scientific research” governing not only the theory but the education, instrumentation, rules and standards of practice. The scientific community decides which questions even relevant to the development of scientific research by reference to the paradigm, and not the other way around: observation is in this way theory-dependent. | ||
A paradigm has exclusive jurisdiction over its own subject matter. One can only pronounce on a scientific problem once one has been fully inducted into it: biologists will not take seriously the biological assertions of fundamentalist Christians, for example. Fundamentalist Christians who take biology exams will fail, and thereby will never be able to authoritatively comment on biological matters. | A paradigm has exclusive jurisdiction over its own subject matter. One can only pronounce on a scientific problem once one has been fully inducted into it: biologists will not take seriously the biological assertions of fundamentalist Christians, for example. Fundamentalist Christians who take biology exams will fail, and thereby will never be able to authoritatively comment on biological matters. | ||