Thomas Kuhn's 1962 landmark work proposing that science alternates between periods of 'normal science' (puzzle-solving within a paradigm) and 'scientific revolutions' (paradigm shifts) — the most influential philosophy of science text of the 20th century.
Introduced paradigm and paradigm shift into the intellectual vocabulary — demonstrating that scientific frameworks are not simply accumulated but periodically revolutionized, and that the choice between paradigms is not fully determined by logic or evidence alone.
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