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(2005) The selected works of Arne Naess, Dordrecht, Springer.
In view of its exceptional suggestiveness, let us start with the work of T. S. Kuhn. Roughly speaking, Kuhn suggests that a mature science develops normally within a tradition through acceptance of a certain way of "doing science." The activity is, only in part, characterized by acceptance of a definite set of explicit theories, assumptions, and postulates as true and correct. Implicitly held views, presuppositions (àla Collingwood) contribute essentially to the tradition. Only a revolution, incited by persistent anomalies, makes the scientific community relinquish its loyalty to its tradition and take up a new way of "doing science."
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4519-6_24
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Naess, A. (2005)., The new historiography applied to itself: general possibilism, in A. Naess, The selected works of Arne Naess, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 978-1003.
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