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Posted 2007-09-26, 05:05 PM
I'm just trying to think of all the one's there have been, so if you can think of any more please list them for me. So far I've got:

Galileo (Astronomy)
Newton (Physics)
Darwin (Evolution)
Mendel (Genetics)
Maxwell (Electrostatics)
Einstein (Special Relativity, General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics)

If you don't know what a Khunian revolution is, it's basically a paradigm change, a paradigm basically being the basis that other theories are formed on. So for instance, Einstein's theory of relativity replaced Newtonian relativity. Newton's theories replaced the ancient God theories, and other theories of planetary motion, kinematics and everything else were built off of that. I'm writing a paper arguing against the notion of Khunian revolutions being common-place for my English class. Any more ideas would be awesome.
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Posted 2007-09-26, 05:14 PM in reply to Demosthenes's post "Khunian Revolutions"
What do you mean common place? As if those people are everywhere or born every day? If so, that's an absured notion. It's so obvious in everyday life that 90% of the population are simply idiots.

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Posted 2007-09-26, 05:27 PM in reply to Kaneda's post starting "What do you mean common place? As if..."
Kaneda said:
What do you mean common place? As if those people are everywhere or born every day? If so, that's an absured notion. It's so obvious in everyday life that 90% of the population are simply idiots.
Well, I mean the revolution itself being common-place, not the scientists. And by commonplace I mean multiple revolutions in a common mans life time. For instance, if the laws of thermodynamics were shown to be inaccurate, that would be a scientific revolution.
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Posted 2007-09-26, 05:34 PM in reply to Demosthenes's post "Khunian Revolutions"
What about the discovery of the Atom, as well as some of Tesla's research? I know both of those made some big waves, but I don't know if they're big enough to be considered a revolution.
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Posted 2007-09-27, 12:57 AM in reply to Vollstrecker's post starting "What about the discovery of the Atom,..."
What about some great Philosophers?
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Posted 2007-09-27, 01:47 AM in reply to Willkillforfood's post starting "What about some great Philosophers?"
Well, philosophers are great, but I doubt that any of them really contributed much to a scientific revolution, which is what I'm after in this paper. Volls, I'll look into those two and see if I can incorporate them. Thanks.
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Posted 2007-09-27, 06:18 PM in reply to Demosthenes's post starting "Well, philosophers are great, but I..."
I'm sure an argument could be made for it but I'm too lazy. *gives up* =P
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Posted 2007-09-28, 05:49 PM in reply to Willkillforfood's post starting "What about some great Philosophers?"
Willkillforfood said:
What about some great Philosophers?
I think he's looking more for Physical/Biological/etc sciences rather than Social Sciences.
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Posted 2007-09-30, 10:13 PM in reply to Vollstrecker's post starting "I think he's looking more for..."
Copernicus - I'm pretty sure Kuhn used that example in the book, though.
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Posted 2007-09-27, 10:18 PM in reply to Demosthenes's post "Khunian Revolutions"
You may be able to find something similar if you look up Auguste Comte. He postulated that the science of a time period represented a certain stage of history. Very basically, he said Theological Stage -> Metaphysical Stage -> Scientific Stage -> Sociological Stage
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