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082			_a508.1 _bKuh
100			_aKuhn, Thomas S.
245		4	_aThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aNew York _bNew American Library _c1970
300			_axiii; 172p. _b5.5x8.5 _chb
520			_aThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions is a landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost unbroken series of aphorisms. Its author, Thomas S. Kuhn, wastes little time on demolishing the logical empiricist view of science as an objective progression toward the truth. Instead he erects from ground up a structure in which science is seen to be heavily influenced by nonrational procedures, and in which new theories are viewed as being more complex than those they usurp but not as standing any closer to the truth. Science is not the steady, cumulative acquisition of knowledge that is portrayed in the textbooks. Rather, it is a series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions . . . in each of which one conceptual world view is replaced by another.
546			_aENG
650			_aScience-Philosophy
650			_aScience-History
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