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Re: [chox] Thomas S. Kuhn (1922 - 1922+73)



Hi!

Last week (7 days ago) Karl Dietz wrote:
Kuhn, the article says, "was working toward his doctorate in
physics at Harvard University when he was asked to teach some
science to undergraduate humanities majors. Searching for a
simple case history that could illumin ate the roots of Newtonian
mechanics, Kuhn opened Aristotle's Physics and was astonished
at how `wrong' it was... Kuhn was pondering this mystery, staring
out of the window of his dormitory room... when suddenly Aristotle
`made sense.'"

"Kuhn," the article said, "realized that Aristotle's views of such
basic concepts as motion and matter were totally unlike
Newton's... Understood on its own terms, Aristotle's physics
`wasn't just bad Newton,' Kuhn says; it was just different."

Was ich immer sage: Die Dinge können nur in ihrem jeweiligen
gesellschaftlichen - und dazu gehört natürlich auch die jeweilige
Wissenschaft - verstanden werden. Die Differenz ist zu akzeptieren.
Inkomensurabel wäre wohl der richtige Begriff.


						Mit Freien Grüßen

						Stefan

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